as in parvenus
one who has recently acquired wealth and social position
a nouveau riche who is reportedly using his money to buy his way into Palm Beach society
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Noun
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Bread Financial works with upstarts like legal AI firm Harvey and AI content platform Jasper.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
8 Apr. 2026 -
Tech companies and artificial intelligence upstarts have unleashed a South Bay leasing surge that has produced the region’s best quarter for office space rental activity since the end of the coronavirus outbreak, a new report has disclosed.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Certainly there’s a long and distinguished tradition of associating Jewish arrivistes with entrepreneurialism, avarice, and clannishness.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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“Nouveaux riches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nouveaux%20riches. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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