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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
Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Attacks on statutory rights are pushing these countries back to conditions reminiscent of the late nineteenth century, when poverty and slums were the norm for a working class with no social safety net.
—Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
Haley Parsley
june 12, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2026
But while some might see a political strategy in the event, given that UFC’s fans include some of the same infrequent, working-class, and young male voters Trump famously drew out in 2024, keeping those voters in the GOP fold isn’t a major goal of this weekend.
—Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 12 June 2026
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Noun
Strictly speaking, Connie is an aristocrat and Mellors is working class.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Attacks on statutory rights are pushing these countries back to conditions reminiscent of the late nineteenth century, when poverty and slums were the norm for a working class with no social safety net.
—Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
Adjective
Villegas built grassroots support in the heavily Latino, working-class district.
—Haley Parsley
june 12, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2026
But while some might see a political strategy in the event, given that UFC’s fans include some of the same infrequent, working-class, and young male voters Trump famously drew out in 2024, keeping those voters in the GOP fold isn’t a major goal of this weekend.
—Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 12 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working class
Noun
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Members of the poor and the middle class are dying.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
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That means taxing the rich to ease burdens on the poor and middle class.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
15 June 2026
Adjective
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Social inclusion, within the family, the community, and the nation, Vider writes, all depend on performing domesticity correctly, that is, following the scripts of the white, middle-class, heterosexual home.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 June 2026
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Not only has that minute program, with its middle-class appeal, fallen by the wayside, but the state’s pre-existing and equally minute youth employment programs for potential dropouts have been allowed to shrink.—
George Liebmann,
Baltimore Sun,
13 June 2026
Noun
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His mother was born into Rome’s commercial bourgeoisie, but she had essentially been disinherited, nose-diving into the working class with a pair of children to raise.—
Andrea Bajani,
New Yorker,
7 June 2026
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Pratt, who did not respond to a request for comment, lost his Pacific Palisades home in the fires and has won over many frustrated city residents with his anti-establishment message and cheeky AI videos — including one casting him as Batman, taking on a corrupt Democratic bourgeoisie.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2026
Adjective
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In sharp contrast to the first-generation members of the Frankfurt School, Habermas came from a petit-bourgeois, culturally conservative Protestant milieu, his family name going back to sixteenth-century Thuringian cobblers.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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Their attempts to destroy the bourgeois family were, like the efforts of Suzanna’s mother and grandmother, ambivalent and half-hearted.—
Julius Taranto,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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These conditions can increase your vulnerability to adverse effects from poor air quality.—
Southern California Weather Report,
Oc Register,
16 June 2026
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Equating the Holocaust to Gaza is in extremely poor taste.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
16 June 2026
Adjective
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This is my dream job, plain and simple.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 June 2026
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The surprise room was plain, with two chairs and a table.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2026
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“Working class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20class. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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