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Adjective
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But by the mid-2000s, they were reduced to playing downscale gigs like state fairs.—
Todd Longwell,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025 -
Visually, the queen of this rodeo is Dianne Graebner’s costume design, from day in and day out downscale dress for home and office wear to an unexpected range of intentionally tacky ancient Egyptian garb and, appropriately, enough sequinning to make the concert sequence cowgirl togs sparkle.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Another down-market strategy is tax-loss harvesting.—
Letitia Berbaum,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Microsoft is introducing a pair of new Surface devices today, both aimed slightly down-market from the 11th-generation Surface Pro tablet and 7th-generation Surface Laptop that the company released last spring.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 May 2025
Adjective
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Freshly caught fish often hang in plain sight, and the selection changes so frequently that a whiteboard keeps track of what’s available.—
Aaron Randolph,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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To create your own, write a name on a plain paper gift tag.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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This was indeed something new under the bourgeois sun.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Cultured, cosmopolitan, generally liberal, the Dohnányis and the Bonhoeffers represented the best of the German-speaking bourgeois tradition.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The mother of twin 4-year-olds was just hoping to make a small difference in her working-class neighborhood as food aid funding for tens of millions of vulnerable Americans is expected to end Friday due to the government shutdown.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2025
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Deen said the union’s involvement in the Railyards was solely motivated by a lack of housing for working-class people like its members.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Déclassé.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/d%C3%A9class%C3%A9. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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