status symbol
noun
: something (such as an expensive car) that a person owns and that shows wealth or a high social status
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Inviting this select group of A-listers and activating during the Monaco Grand Prix was part of Alo’s wider strategy to reposition wellness as luxury’s new status symbol.
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Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
Certain elite industries, such as publishing and academia, treated non-whiteness as its own status symbol.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
Long before the beach house became a status symbol, the sea was food, passage, commerce and myth.
—Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
Forbes lists are largely a status symbol for the 1%, but as the business publication has expanded its purview — and as the music business has grown legit billionaires — its lists and criteria have grown.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 June 2026
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Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
Certain elite industries, such as publishing and academia, treated non-whiteness as its own status symbol.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
Long before the beach house became a status symbol, the sea was food, passage, commerce and myth.
—Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
Forbes lists are largely a status symbol for the 1%, but as the business publication has expanded its purview — and as the music business has grown legit billionaires — its lists and criteria have grown.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for status symbol
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“Status symbol.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/status%20symbol. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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