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the class of people who earn money by doing usually physical work and who are not rich or powerful
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Recent Examples of working-class
Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Standing next to her grandmother Mary, Eleanore Bumpurs, a working-class mother of two and a public housing resident, spoke on behalf of the family.
—Lashawn Harris
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Will McDuffie, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2025
Continue reading … ON THE DECLINE – Mamdani warns of 'withering faith' in democracy to deliver for working class.
—FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Hazell was raised in a poor, working-class family in Grove Park, a district of South East London.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Standing next to her grandmother Mary, Eleanore Bumpurs, a working-class mother of two and a public housing resident, spoke on behalf of the family.
—Lashawn Harris
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Both men campaigned for the Senate as champions, and representatives, of the white working class, a demographic with whom Democrats have lost ground in recent cycles.
—Will McDuffie, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2025
Continue reading … ON THE DECLINE – Mamdani warns of 'withering faith' in democracy to deliver for working class.
—FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working-class
Noun
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Who are the upper middle class white ladies shooting guns and drinking who don't work?—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Or marry Selden, if you’re actually attracted to him, and endure the not-very-unspeakable fate of being merely upper middle class rather than super-rich.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The incumbent, Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal), who lives in upper-middle-class comfort with his teen-age son, Eric (Matt Gomez Hidaka)—and without his ex-wife, who left him long ago—is intent on enforcing the state’s mask mandate.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
5 Sep. 2025
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The amount of inner tension that is required to hold together what is the most seemingly normal, regular middle-class existence with a working husband and two jobs and kids and a house and a crazy brother and your elderly mom, and, obviously, the skeleton in the proverbial closet.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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This kind of soft satire also puts me in mind of Dorothy West, who excellently sent up a nascent Black bourgeoisie in novels like The Wedding.—
Brittany Allen
July 10,
Literary Hub,
10 July 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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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
Adjective
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But prorating three years of player profits down to 12 months, as UEFA’s rule does, reduces the immediate efficacy of successful trading in the market, the very strategy that poorer clubs increasingly rely on to climb the ladder.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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Like most extended car warranty providers, CarShield excludes pre-existing conditions that existed before your warranty took effect, as well as damage resulting from poor maintenance, neglect or intentional abuse.—
Brian Sloan,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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If the debut white-and-navy look was too plain, the sequel was anything but, with vivid colors practically jumping off of the glossy design.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2025
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Some are too flashy, while others look too plain to justify the price tag.—
Amina Ayoud,
Glamour,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Working-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working-class. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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