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Recent Examples of bourgeoisie
La Notte, another standout, sees her light up a contemplative drama about the Italian bourgeoisie.
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Rob Ledonne, Vogue, 6 June 2025
This creative evolution has expanded papier-mâché’s market appeal, with a new generation of clientele emerging – a group that includes interior designers, a local urban bourgeoisie, and international buyers.
—Fahad Shah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2025
The company was started around the same time as other famous French stores like Le Bon Marché (1852) and La Samaritaine (1870), both of which, like Printemps, catered to the country’s growing bourgeoisie.
—Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
According to theory, words referred not to the world they were tasked with representing but only to other words in a ruthless system where meaning was elusive, reality an illusion and the self a romantic fiction perpetrated by the capitalist bourgeoisie.
—Emily Eakin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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Rob Ledonne, Vogue, 6 June 2025
This creative evolution has expanded papier-mâché’s market appeal, with a new generation of clientele emerging – a group that includes interior designers, a local urban bourgeoisie, and international buyers.
—Fahad Shah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2025
The company was started around the same time as other famous French stores like Le Bon Marché (1852) and La Samaritaine (1870), both of which, like Printemps, catered to the country’s growing bourgeoisie.
—Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
According to theory, words referred not to the world they were tasked with representing but only to other words in a ruthless system where meaning was elusive, reality an illusion and the self a romantic fiction perpetrated by the capitalist bourgeoisie.
—Emily Eakin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bourgeoisie
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Somehow, this respectable foe of radicalism had organized the political realignment that broke up the Union, sustained the war that overthrew the South’s ruling class, and managed the struggle that emancipated its proletariat.—
Matthew Karp,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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As is the case with the aesthetics of people, exquisite lines can be found on patrician and proletariat cars alike.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
21 Feb. 2025
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The creation of a green economy that improves our environment, creates viable union careers, bolsters the middle class, generates economic stimulus, and lowers overall energy costs is a priority.—
Gary LaBarbera,
New York Daily News,
19 Aug. 2025
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His government dramatically reduced the poverty rate, and expanded Bolivia’s middle class.—
Mollie J. Cohen,
The Conversation,
18 Aug. 2025
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This film was a labor of love, exploring the imagination of the working class through the transporting power of music.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
12 Aug. 2025
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The agenda centers on an insightful reckoning: How can the Democratic Party represent itself as the problem-solving party of the working class when its track record exhibits innumerable failures in major cities?—
Seth David Radwell,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Aug. 2025
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“Bourgeoisie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeoisie. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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