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Noun
Progressive group Justice Democrats is expanding its 2026 midterm recruitment of working class, left-wing candidates, undeterred by President-elect Trump’s victory and emboldened by a desire to change how Democrats elect new talent under a GOP Washington. Hanna Trudo, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025 Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust doesn’t do justice to West’s paranoia, yet its remoteness captures the liberal Hollywood apathy that no longer identifies with American domesticity and sees its own working class as existing merely to perpetuate ruling-class superiority. Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
Image In the race to replace him as party leader, candidates have offered an array of approaches but a common theme: the Democratic Party has lost touch with its working-class base. J. David Goodman, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025 In contrast, millions of working-class Americans—many of whom were prioritized in previous stimulus programs—would receive nothing. Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for working class
Recent Examples of Synonyms for working class
Noun
  • Fairness is no longer a concern as the rich grow more prosperous and powerful while the poor grow poorer, and the middle class disappears.
    Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Her campaign targeted split-ticket voters, emphasizing affordable healthcare, costs of living, and jobs for working and middle class Americans, while taking a moderate stance on gun laws.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • For me, the Heartland represents midsize cities like Tulsa, middle-class citizens, and those striving to reach the middle class.
    Nicholas Lalla, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Irvine had the second-highest middle-class income requirements in the state, with middle-class households earning $85,317 to $255,978 annually, while San Francisco came in third, with annual household earnings of $84,478 to $253,460.
    Kendrick Marshall, Sacramento Bee, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • According to theory, words referred not to the world they were tasked with representing but only to other words in a ruthless system where meaning was elusive, reality an illusion and the self a romantic fiction perpetrated by the capitalist bourgeoisie.
    Emily Eakin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Even before the Atlantic City Boardwalk became the iconic scene of the Roaring ‘20s New Jersey bourgeoisie, the Jersey Shore was already increasingly a vacation spot for the wealthy.
    Andrew DePietro, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • There’s plenty such wordplay in The Safe House, to the point that the movie can seem like a caricature of overeducated, perpetually growling Parisians shouting for social change, but too self-centered and comfortable in their bourgeois lifestyles to do anything drastic about it.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The social outcast lead is now a Black African (Mamadou Sidibé), action moves to Marseilles and the protagonist is taken in by a suave bourgeois member of the French-Arab community.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • And another research team, using data from 2015 to 2022, observed in an article available in Energy Research and Social Science that poor income distribution correlates with social unrest when fossil fuel subsidies are removed.
    Aldo Flores-Quiroga, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Federal workers got commendations, awards, positive reviews – and then were fired for 'poor performance' Taxes are coming.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • My son didn’t want the standard plain vanilla suspended ceiling.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2025
  • With modest effort and our standard test parts, our system looks great all lit up (even with the plain, unlit fans on our 240mm CPU cooler).
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 1 Mar. 2025

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“Working class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20class. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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