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Recent Examples of nouveau richeThe battle of the nouveau riche could just as easily be referred to as the Oil Firm.—Darren Richman, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 Advertisement Who does Johnson consider nouveau riche?—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024 The Sun Devils are nouveau riche to this rarified air.—Matthew Self, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2024 The battle of the nouveau riche could just as easily be referred to as the Oil Firm.—Darren Richman, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nouveau riche
In 1952, backed by little more than his reputation as a war hero and a fortune staked by his parvenu father, 35-year-old John F. Kennedy swiped a Senate seat from Republican Henry Cabot Lodge, himself a wealthy combat veteran.
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Kevin Mahnken,
The New Republic,
1 Sep. 2020
Raveendran, at least on paper, assumes his place among those parvenus thanks to his effort in internet education.
Chief among the upstarts is Zohran Mamdani, a two-term state Assemblyman from Queens who has been endorsed by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
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Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
23 June 2025
Instead, Thompson argues, that media is following so many other economic forces, with a robust world of upstarts, and the biggest players getting bigger.
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