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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).
—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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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
Noun
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All that loot pumped out of the Armenian proletariat, says the gaur, and for what.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Severin, on the other hand, represents the revolutionary proletariat.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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At one event in the backyard of a handsome home in Concord, Emanuel greeted voters and practiced a stump speech that highlighted strains on the middle class and the excesses of the tax system.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 June 2026
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Garamendi is a Delta congressman who plans to focus on bringing jobs to the middle class, enhancing health care accessibility and investing in clean energy, according to his campaign website.—
Corey Schmidt,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
Noun
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The third season, Devil In Silver, is based on the book by Victor LaValle, about a working class man mistakenly committed to a psychiatric hospital where things get very, very dark.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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To read Carver, who was a working class writer but with a literary sophistication underneath, was really electrifying to me.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2026
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“Bourgeoisie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeoisie. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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