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belonging to the class of people of middle social or economic rank
She grew up in a middle-class neighborhood, as did most of her classmates.
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Recent Examples of middle-class
John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Altadena is a bastion for financial mobility and generational longevity for middle-class Black and brown Angelenos, which became one of the most integrated neighborhoods in Los Angeles County after years of white flight during the 1950s.
—Elizabeth Price, Vox, 22 Jan. 2025
John Hollinger, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
The middle classes are travelling abroad once again, as the dream of a neo-convertibility that mirrors the decade of one-to-one convertibility with the US dollar in the 1990s stimulates popular support.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
From 1979-2013, low-wage workers saw their real wages drop 5 percent, the middle-class stagnated, but those with very high wages saw a 41 percent increase.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Altadena is a bastion for financial mobility and generational longevity for middle-class Black and brown Angelenos, which became one of the most integrated neighborhoods in Los Angeles County after years of white flight during the 1950s.
—Elizabeth Price, Vox, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
Lesser prey — think Brooklyn’s Cameron Johnson, for instance — might help keep the Kings comfortably in the upper middle class for another few years.
—John Hollinger, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
The middle classes are travelling abroad once again, as the dream of a neo-convertibility that mirrors the decade of one-to-one convertibility with the US dollar in the 1990s stimulates popular support.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle-class
Adjective
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Lopetegui was eventually sacked on January 8, having failed to fix West Ham’s poor form.—
Roshane Thomas,
The Athletic,
5 Feb. 2025
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Though Osbourne had a farewell tour set to begin in 2023, he was forced to cancel the shows due to poor health.—
Rosa Rahimi,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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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
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He’s also advocated for honing the party’s message to working class Americans and communicating through more mediums like podcasts, gaming platforms and others.—
Dana Ferguson,
Twin Cities,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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My grandmother was a bourgeois German Jew, and my grandfather was the son of a stonemason in Sardinia.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2025
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And a lot of conservatism in general is about upholding bourgeois lifestyles, morality, identity, politics, and so forth.—
Vittoria Elliott,
WIRED,
21 Jan. 2025
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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
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Then a hotelier hung Nymphs and Satyr in a public bar, shaking up NYC's bourgeoisie.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 June 2024
Adjective
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Gamers will love its dual HDMI 2.1 inputs for a variable refresh rate (VRR) of up to 144 Hz, while the Google TV interface makes setup and streaming simple and swift.—
Ryan Waniata,
WIRED,
5 Feb. 2025
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Read: The constitutional crisis is here But if the agency is restored—next week, next month, or years from now—restarting its work won’t be as simple as turning the flow of cash back on.—
Hana Kiros,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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For example, just a decade after the emergence of the new urban working-class culture in the 1830s, Irish immigration transformed the workforces of northern cities.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
2 Feb. 2025
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His viral video riding around in a garbage truck and wearing a McDonald’s apron also boosted his support with working-class voters, turning them away from then-candidate Kamala Harris and former President Joe Biden during the 2024 election.—
Rachel Schilke,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
1 Feb. 2025
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“Middle-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle-class. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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