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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
Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
This will have an interesting effect on the NBA middle class, where more players could find themselves in the Non-Tax MLE area financially, and where the playing field isn't skewed too much towards stars.
—Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
In addition to the government shutdown deadline, lawmakers will also focus on the Texas redistricting and possibly rebranding the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to focus on benefits for middle-class families.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
That could weaken the middle class and reduce economic mobility, which are both vital for a healthy economy.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
This will have an interesting effect on the NBA middle class, where more players could find themselves in the Non-Tax MLE area financially, and where the playing field isn't skewed too much towards stars.
—Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
Armani was born on July 11, 1934, to a middle-class family in the northern Italian city of Piacenza.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
In addition to the government shutdown deadline, lawmakers will also focus on the Texas redistricting and possibly rebranding the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to focus on benefits for middle-class families.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle class
Adjective
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But prorating three years of player profits down to 12 months, as UEFA’s rule does, reduces the immediate efficacy of successful trading in the market, the very strategy that poorer clubs increasingly rely on to climb the ladder.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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Like most extended car warranty providers, CarShield excludes pre-existing conditions that existed before your warranty took effect, as well as damage resulting from poor maintenance, neglect or intentional abuse.—
Brian Sloan,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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Her brother, Chris Candy, adds fans of their father cheered a working class hero that stayed true to himself in Hollywood.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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Ultimately, the working class will continue to shape elections as 62 percent of Americans remain without a college degree and, according to Statista, only 34 percent of households earn over $100,000.—
Alex J. Rouhandeh,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Isabella Cosse writes that Quino was attacked both by the left (for being too bourgeois to offer a real critique of the political repression) and by the right (for being too friendly to subversive groups).—
Daniel Alarcón,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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Domesticity presented an existential challenge to the Communist war on bourgeois weakness and materialism.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 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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With just a few chairs, a handful of tables and a simple tent, the setting was intimate but filled with love and intention.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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And one of these, for those of us accustomed to British conventions but who follow the game in continental Europe, is the simple passage of time.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In part, the movie focuses on the connection between the veteran, working-class-style Brewers lineup and the city of Milwaukee, which in the early 1980s was reeling from the recession.—
Chris Foran,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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See You At The Finish Line follows Lucas, a sharp-witted, working-class rower, and George, an American golden-boy captain, whose uneasy alliance evolves into a tender but combustible love story against the backdrop of the famous boat race between Oxford and Cambridge universities.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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