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Noun
The franchise follows the drama filled, table flipped lives of wealthy women's lowbrow fights in upper crust cities across America. Jay Stahl, USA Today, 8 May 2025 In the first month of the 2025 season, the disparity between Major League Baseball’s upper crust and its lower-revenue counterparts has never appeared more stark. Andy McCullough, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025 Finally, please bring back Cook’s wealthy, upper crust mom, because that was a fascinating dynamic. Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 11 Apr. 2025 The Gospel authors, far from being community leaders preserving oral sayings for largely illiterate followers, were highly literate members of a small, erudite upper crust, distant in experience, attitude, and geography from any Galilean peasant preachers. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for upper-crust
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Adjective
  • Related Articles Fresh off designing the priest’s robes for the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, the designer with aristocratic roots took another deep dive into the history of France.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 18 June 2025
  • While Nancy Mitford’s life was all aristocratic escapades splashed across the gossip pages, Bessie Carter has a penchant for German techno and British electronic-music festivals, comfy T-shirts on her days off, and a nebulizer for her vocal cords.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • On this trip, there would be no time for work anxieties or type-A chasing of personal bests.
    Kathy Roberson, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2025
  • Profar had career bests in average (.280), OBP (.380) and slugging percentage (.459) in 2024 for San Diego.
    David O'Brien, New York Times, 14 June 2025
Noun
  • Valor and nobility were recurring themes in my childhood.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
  • Based in Jaipur for 10 generations, his family has sourced gems for India’s maharajas and nobility for centuries.
    Jill Newman, Robb Report, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • According to Back, this intellectual aristocracy persisted until the dilution of Bloomsbury by new members from outside the family lineage.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 14 May 2025
  • The landed aristocracy of Great Britain long ago discovered that to be a way to keep their inheritance intact.
    Miami Herasld Archives, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • These opulent textiles have long been woven into the fabric of upper class living.
    Sarah Wood González, Architectural Digest, 10 June 2025
  • Pandering to the desires of the upper class, MAHA pushes products and services that are out of reach for the average American.
    Aron Solomon, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • The area became favored by the elite when the Rockefellers purchased land there in the 1960s.
    Melinda Sheckells, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • But he is despised by Thailand’s powerful elites, who saw his rule as corrupt, authoritarian and socially destabilizing.
    Lionel Lim, Fortune, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • This differed from Europe, where land ownership was immobilized by gentry classes who housed and employed farmers.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 June 2025
  • These bodies have historically overwhelmingly catered to a tiny sliver of the population — predominantly white, gentry liberals.
    Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Members of Iranian paramilitary women forces (Basij) wear masks of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US elect Donald Trump with a red cross of it, during an anti-Israeli rally to show their solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese people, in Tehran, January 10, 2025.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
  • Their 2-1 victory there solidified their status as elect champions of Italy.
    Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Upper-crust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/upper-crust. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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