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the class of people who earn money by doing usually physical work and who are not rich or powerful
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Recent Examples of working class
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2026
How better for the billionaires to get the sympathy of working class fans?
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Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
4 June 2026
Judy Berman,
Time,
29 June 2026
So, by the turn of the 20th century, summer camp expanded from the realm of boys in the woods to enrichment programs that included girls and working-class immigrant children, too.
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Natalie Escobar,
NPR,
25 June 2026
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Noun
To read Carver, who was a working class writer but with a literary sophistication underneath, was really electrifying to me.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2026
How better for the billionaires to get the sympathy of working class fans?
—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
4 June 2026
Adjective
Forever, whose first season won a Peabody Award and was, according to Netflix, viewed nearly 20 million times in its two months on the platform, introduces a privileged Black boy who falls for a working-class girl.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
29 June 2026
So, by the turn of the 20th century, summer camp expanded from the realm of boys in the woods to enrichment programs that included girls and working-class immigrant children, too.
—
Natalie Escobar,
NPR,
25 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working class
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The American Century has been inherited by the Asian middle class.
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Platner has staked out a populist message and centered his campaign on the middle class.
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As artificial intelligence begins to reshape the economy and place downward pressure on many middle-class salaries, the Dutch model may offer important lessons for America’s future.
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His work was known for its witty dialogue, middle-class characters and emotional accessibility.
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For a long time, the lifestyles and foibles of the modest bourgeoisie were a mainstay of art-house cinema, with urbane, upscale audiences happy to turn out to see versions of their own lives depicted on the screen.
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His mother was born into Rome’s commercial bourgeoisie, but she had essentially been disinherited, nose-diving into the working class with a pair of children to raise.
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In sharp contrast to the first-generation members of the Frankfurt School, Habermas came from a petit-bourgeois, culturally conservative Protestant milieu, his family name going back to sixteenth-century Thuringian cobblers.
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Their attempts to destroy the bourgeois family were, like the efforts of Suzanna’s mother and grandmother, ambivalent and half-hearted.
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Because of that, these hands suffer from high production costs, poor durability against impacts, short operational lifespans, and there are no existing solutions that engineers can readily draw upon, Wang added.
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The extreme heat can also affect people who are physically ill, especially those with heart disease or high blood pressure, or who take certain medications, such as for depression, insomnia, or poor circulation.
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With head coach Thomas Tuchel also renowned for his plain speaking, many are seeing this approach as a potential factor in England ending their long wait for a follow-up success to their triumph in the competition in 1966.
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For a place of worship the temple was plain, with a long hallway of overlapping purple carpet and idols carved crudely from blush-colored marble.
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“Working class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20class. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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