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Recent Examples of nouveau riche
In season three, with the support of Harry Richardson’s nouveau riche scion Larry Russell, Jack sells his invention for $600,000, or somewhere near $9.5 million in today’s dollars.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
Arguably the series’ silent star, the jewelry reflects the intense competition among New York’s nouveau riche to outshine one another.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 8 Aug. 2025
With more romance, shifting power dynamics between the old guard and the nouveau riche and plenty of dramatic twists, there’s a lot to look forward to on Sunday nights this summer.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
It was remodeled by its subsequent owners—the brothers who owned the F. W. Woolworth Company—in the style of Versailles, an over-the-top gesture that from a twenty-first-century vantage point looks quintessentially nouveau riche, and quintessentially New Jersey.
—Hazlitt, 11 June 2025
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
Arguably the series’ silent star, the jewelry reflects the intense competition among New York’s nouveau riche to outshine one another.
—Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 8 Aug. 2025
With more romance, shifting power dynamics between the old guard and the nouveau riche and plenty of dramatic twists, there’s a lot to look forward to on Sunday nights this summer.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
It was remodeled by its subsequent owners—the brothers who owned the F. W. Woolworth Company—in the style of Versailles, an over-the-top gesture that from a twenty-first-century vantage point looks quintessentially nouveau riche, and quintessentially New Jersey.
—Hazlitt, 11 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nouveau riche
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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.—
Kevin Mahnken,
The New Republic,
1 Sep. 2020
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Raveendran, at least on paper, assumes his place among those parvenus thanks to his effort in internet education.—
Saritha Rai,
Fortune,
29 July 2019
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Around 2015, upstarts like Chobani or BodyArmor began stealing market share from legacy brands.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
31 Jan. 2026
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In Comulate’s telling, Applied and Hellman & Friedman are monopolistic predators that use their market dominance to crush plucky upstarts seeking to build products on top of Epic.—
John Hyatt,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Earlier in the interview, Turner looked ahead to a bright future in her role as Croft, the adventurer and gaming icon who was named by the BAFTA Game Awards' global poll as the most iconic video game character of all time in 2024, over the likes of Sonic the Hedgehog, Pikachu, and Mario.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Jan. 2026
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The Game of Thrones and X-Men star is decked out as the globe-trotting archaeologist and adventurer in the debut photo from Prime Video’s reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise (see it, below).—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Jan. 2026
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“Nouveau riche.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nouveau%20riche. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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