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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
Cd Goette-Luciak, Miami Herald, 23 June 2025
Gat is a middle class New Yorker, intellectual kid, kind of on fire with ideas and the urge to critique and unpack and understand the world around him.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2025
Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 25 June 2025
Before the internet, television was one of our primary tools for learning about how the world worked, what life was like outside of our middle-class suburban neighborhood.
—Maris Kreizman, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2025
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Adjective
Luxury unit sales are booming, but overall condo sales are in a slump, despite prices holding steady, as middle class buyers find condo ownership increasingly out of reach.
—Cd Goette-Luciak, Miami Herald, 23 June 2025
Gat is a middle class New Yorker, intellectual kid, kind of on fire with ideas and the urge to critique and unpack and understand the world around him.
—Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2025
Noun
In one 50-year study of middle-class Finnish men, dubbed the Helsinki Businessman Study, hundreds of participants were given a health and fitness routine to stick to for decades, while hundreds of others were left to their own devices.
—Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 25 June 2025
Before the internet, television was one of our primary tools for learning about how the world worked, what life was like outside of our middle-class suburban neighborhood.
—Maris Kreizman, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle class
Adjective
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Despite having a poor 2024 season that saw the Pirates remove Bednar from the closer role, the right-hander is back to his dominant form.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
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The key drivers are BGE’s soaring spending and profits and poor management by PJM Interconnection, the private entity that operates our electric grid.—
Emily Scarr,
Baltimore Sun,
29 June 2025
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Following the 2024 election there was much handwringing, pulling of hair, and gnashing of teeth over how the Democratic Party lost the broad working class.—
Nick Gauthier,
Hartford Courant,
7 July 2025
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In 2024, Trump won 55% of Hispanic voters earning $50,000 annually or less, an income cohort commonly defined as working class, defeating then-Vice President Kamala Harris by 11 percentage points , according to CNN exit polling.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
18 June 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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The promise in the air inspires immigrants, unionists, suffragettes, and a rising Black bourgeoisie.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
24 June 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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The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing.—
Leila Sloman,
Wired News,
29 June 2025
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This simple, clear shift in communication started to highlight the reality of who was contributing what.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
28 June 2025
Adjective
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The results of November’s election showed that the G.O.P. was, indeed, making progress in working-class areas.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
7 July 2025
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While Democrats often struggle to articulate a unified, compelling message, Trump’s simplicity proves consistently powerful, especially among working-class voters feeling disenfranchised by traditional political messaging.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
7 July 2025
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“Middle class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle%20class. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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