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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
Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Today, one-quarter of all Americans have their health care paid for by the program, including 60% of all nursing home residents in the country, many of whom were middle-class in their working years.
—Jim Nowlan, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Since both Morisot and Manet families were respectably upper-middle class, there was no problem in her sitting as a model for him.
—Robert Taylor, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
The analysts cheering for AI's success are effectively rooting for mass unemployment in most middle-class professions.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Today, one-quarter of all Americans have their health care paid for by the program, including 60% of all nursing home residents in the country, many of whom were middle-class in their working years.
—Jim Nowlan, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
Also, influencer content is getting really professionalized, and if AI is coming for them, what’s to stop it from coming for a host of other programming that exists in Hollywood’s middle class?
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Since both Morisot and Manet families were respectably upper-middle class, there was no problem in her sitting as a model for him.
—Robert Taylor, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle-class
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The apology came after a sustained campaign by historians and activists who argued that the victims were persecuted for being poor, vulnerable, or simply different.—
James Frater,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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As has Mark Flekken, the new goalkeeper, who moved from Brentford and is fortunate not to have lost his place due to poor form.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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While the Queen was something of a controversial choice for the bride of a future king, as she had been married before and grew up working class, the royal rift likely stems from a more complicated history with the family.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Lowriders trace back to the 1940s-era working class of Mexican American and Chicano communities throughout the American Southwest.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
29 Oct. 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
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Early American bohemianism is often associated with the literature of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Jack London, and Henry Miller, as well as a host of artists and intellectuals who embraced social nonconformity through a rejection of mainstream bourgeoisie values.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Oct. 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 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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“Middle-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle-class. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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