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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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Caving—which is the more extreme cousin to spelunking—is physically and mentally challenging but also adrenaline fueled and just plain fun, too.—
Heide Brandes,
AFAR Media,
15 Oct. 2025
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And those, including a defense of quarterback Beau Pribula, were plain and worthy on Tuesday in the wake of MU’s first loss of the season last Saturday against Alabama.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
15 Oct. 2025
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But part of Kafka’s drive is something altogether less tangible; art was soon to enter its avant-garde phase in the early 20th century, and the writer turns out to be much more bohemian than his bourgeois upbringing suggests, showing a keen interest in underground Yiddish theater.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025
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This is the mystification at the heart of the trinity formula in which bourgeois economics conceives of commodities as resulting from the combination of three factors of production: land, labor, and capital.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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But some stores in working-class neighborhoods likely rely even more on CalFresh sales, said Stephanie Johnson, vice president of government relations for the National Grocers Association, in an interview with Grocery Dive.—
Cathie Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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He was known for his progressive ideals and deep ties to New York’s working-class communities.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 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 20 Oct. 2025.
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