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The economic cost of the war is now palpable – with cell-phone data outages that regularly blight major cities angering even the pro-Putin bourgeoisie – adding to a sense of the war beginning to hit the urban elite, who until now were mostly isolated from the invasion’s impact.
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Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
4 May 2026
Scheidt’s family were members of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie (a distant cousin, Albert Ballin, was general director of what became the world’s largest steamship line).
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Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
Noasis, around the corner from Base Camp, is for families of tech bourgeoisie.
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Joe Hagan,
Vanity Fair,
18 Mar. 2026
Lluís is an embodiment of a kind of pragmatism that reigned in those years among the Catalan bourgeoisie.
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Colm Tóibín,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2026
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Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
4 May 2026
Scheidt’s family were members of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie (a distant cousin, Albert Ballin, was general director of what became the world’s largest steamship line).
—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
Noasis, around the corner from Base Camp, is for families of tech bourgeoisie.
—
Joe Hagan,
Vanity Fair,
18 Mar. 2026
Lluís is an embodiment of a kind of pragmatism that reigned in those years among the Catalan bourgeoisie.
—
Colm Tóibín,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bourgeoisie
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All that loot pumped out of the Armenian proletariat, says the gaur, and for what.
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Severin, on the other hand, represents the revolutionary proletariat.
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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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Sade’s debut is a pristine work of professional studio craft just like all their subsequent releases, but Diamond Life was made by a working class band that had spent years gigging in the clubs of London.
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This is about working class voters, working class, working class.
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“Bourgeoisie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeoisie. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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