bourgeois

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Recent Examples of bourgeois Sordi stars as Fabio, a bank clerk who has an utterly complacent attitude about the bourgeois comforts of his life. Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 May 2025 The film follows a single mother and her teenage son in a bourgeois house near the port of Beirut. Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 May 2025 Beneath the surface, there are, in fact, some major conflicts brewing in Enzo’s life: He’s been waging a quiet war against his bourgeois parents (Pierfrancesco Favino, Elodie Bouchez), rejecting the typical academic route that his older brother (Nathan Japy) has successfully chosen. Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025 The Industrial Revolution gave rise to a new bourgeois class that, when not reeling from the latest market crash, had time and money to burn. Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bourgeois
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Adjective
  • Despite having a poor 2024 season that saw the Pirates remove Bednar from the closer role, the right-hander is back to his dominant form.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
  • The key drivers are BGE’s soaring spending and profits and poor management by PJM Interconnection, the private entity that operates our electric grid.
    Emily Scarr, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2025
Adjective
  • Overall monthly expenses for a couple are from $1,400 to $2,300—that’s for a comfortable, middle-class lifestyle.
    Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • But advocates for increasing the caps argue that the $10,000 cap is increasingly impacting middle-class homeowners who live in regions where property taxes are rising.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 28 June 2025

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“Bourgeois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeois. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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