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Recent Examples of social climber
The sprawling period drama chronicles the great conflict between old money elites and new money social climbers in New York's glittering Gilded Age.
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Shania Russell, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2024
Instead, Wiig takes center stage as Maxine Simmons, an ambitious social climber in the rarefied Palm Beach society.
—Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
But now, such societies tended to attract eccentrics and social climbers, people who were either all-in on the promise of attaining universal secrets or simply there to hob-nob.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
This one’s a costume drama called The Favourite, and Stone plays a scheming social climber in the court of Queen Anne.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
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Shania Russell, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2024
Instead, Wiig takes center stage as Maxine Simmons, an ambitious social climber in the rarefied Palm Beach society.
—Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
But now, such societies tended to attract eccentrics and social climbers, people who were either all-in on the promise of attaining universal secrets or simply there to hob-nob.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
This one’s a costume drama called The Favourite, and Stone plays a scheming social climber in the court of Queen Anne.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for social climber
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To me, these responses play right into Trump’s hands, reinforcing his claims that liberals are out-of-touch elitists.—
Joanna Dee Das,
The Conversation,
4 Apr. 2025
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By 1990, bootleg versions of the book had washed up for sale in the pages of far-right magazines, peddled alongside sulfurous predictions of American concentration camps and a helpful who’s who of global elitists.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Social climber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/social%20climber. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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