underclass
noun
un·der·class
ˈən-dər-ˌklas 
: the lowest social stratum usually made up of disadvantaged minority groups
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Rather, Mailer’s recordings of them felt like an extreme but iconic depiction of 1970s countercultural underclass Americana, where teenage girls are drugged and gang-raped without registering much on the surface at all.
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Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
But there’s also an alternate future—perhaps one that more resembles the political economy of the present—where tech trillionaires lock in their new power, sideline the state as a political force, and usher in a world where most people are trapped in a permanent underclass.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Passing this bill would be the first official step toward creating a permanent resident underclass with a perpetually renewable legal status that falls short of citizenship.
—The Editors, National Review, 21 July 2025
Among the first of its type, Damiano Damiani’s A Bullet for the General mixes rousing action with a story of betrayal and political assassination that ends with an unambiguous call for the underclass to take up arms.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 July 2025
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Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
But there’s also an alternate future—perhaps one that more resembles the political economy of the present—where tech trillionaires lock in their new power, sideline the state as a political force, and usher in a world where most people are trapped in a permanent underclass.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Passing this bill would be the first official step toward creating a permanent resident underclass with a perpetually renewable legal status that falls short of citizenship.
—The Editors, National Review, 21 July 2025
Among the first of its type, Damiano Damiani’s A Bullet for the General mixes rousing action with a story of betrayal and political assassination that ends with an unambiguous call for the underclass to take up arms.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for underclass
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“Underclass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/underclass. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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