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belonging to the class of people of middle social or economic rank
She grew up in a middle-class neighborhood, as did most of her classmates.
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Recent Examples of middle class
Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2025
But as the Soviet Union fell and the space race slowed, Sridhar pivoted to providing clean energy technology for the rising global middle class.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 18 Oct. 2025
Completed in 1957 as a private residence and currently owned by the Currier Museum of Art, the home is just one of seven Usonian Automatic houses built by Wright and embodies his ambition to design affordable, high-quality housing for middle-class Americans.
—News Desk, Artforum, 17 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Michael Sutton, a redevelopment coordinator of no relation to Fran Sutton, attributes the vastness of the land bank, particularly in northeast Wyandotte, to 20th century redlining and southward and westward flight of the county’s white, wealthy and middle class families.
—Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2025
But as the Soviet Union fell and the space race slowed, Sridhar pivoted to providing clean energy technology for the rising global middle class.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
The setting catches America at a point of transition between an era of middle-class prosperity and the economic decay that was on the horizon.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 18 Oct. 2025
Completed in 1957 as a private residence and currently owned by the Currier Museum of Art, the home is just one of seven Usonian Automatic houses built by Wright and embodies his ambition to design affordable, high-quality housing for middle-class Americans.
—News Desk, Artforum, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle class
Adjective
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There’s another element of the current concern regarding due process that relates to the fate of poor Cinna.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Oct. 2025
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McDaniel’s debut album Lost Ones delves into his own story of growing up in a poor community in Kentucky, and dealing with mental health struggles, both personally and within his family — as well as McDaniel’s story of being saved during a past suicide attempt years ago.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
23 Oct. 2025
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But overall Mamdani’s platform seems to speak especially to Hollywood’s working class.—
Peter Kiefer,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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Democrats see wins in battle for suburbia While some Democratic strongholds buttressed by working class voters have grown redder, the suburbs north of Indianapolis appear to be trending in the opposite direction.—
Marissa Meador,
IndyStar,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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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
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By then, the preeminent fashion genius of the third quarter of the 20th century and the designer so often credited with inventing the modern woman’s wardrobe had handed prêt-à-porter over to his assistants, who clung as if by commandment to the house dogma of bourgeois Parisian elegance.—
Rob Haskell,
Vogue,
20 Oct. 2025
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This kind of soft satire also puts me in mind of Dorothy West, who excellently sent up a nascent Black bourgeoisie in novels like The Wedding.—
Brittany Allen
July 10,
Literary Hub,
10 July 2025
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Its leaders sanctioned the mass appropriation of lands from the nobility and their distribution to smaller farmers and the urban bourgeoisie.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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While House Republicans can pass legislation with a simple majority vote, Senate Republicans cannot advance most matters without meeting a 60-vote threshold.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Oct. 2025
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But in stoppage time, Miami was gifted a third goal when Jordi Alba crossed from the left and keeper Willis, colliding with defender Walker Zimmerman, spilled the ball right to Messi, who had the simplest of tap-ins.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The picture opens as Bruce is riding high, perhaps a little too high for a working-class Freehold, New Jersey kid who bought his first guitar after seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025
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Raised in Blackpool, England, after his adoption into a working-class family, Ball grew up a budding artist with a penchant for the Northern soul craze then sweeping the north of England, obsessively collecting Tamla and Stax singles.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
23 Oct. 2025
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