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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
Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
Wrighting believes these initiatives will support working-class creatives in the space and influence an industry that is better off with working-class voices within it.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025
Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
Instead of prioritizing their working class constituents, these politicians abandoned or sold them out.
—Lovia Gyarkye, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2025
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Noun
The actor, who grew up in a working-class family in Santa Monica, spent decades as a vocal climate activist, founding The Redford Center, dedicated to raising awareness for environmental causes, with his late son James in 2005.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
Wrighting believes these initiatives will support working-class creatives in the space and influence an industry that is better off with working-class voices within it.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Even though my dad was an insurance salesman and had some success, the way I was raised felt to me like a working class environment.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
Instead of prioritizing their working class constituents, these politicians abandoned or sold them out.
—Lovia Gyarkye, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working-class
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This boom also led to the rise of the Indian middle class, and urban centers such as Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune prospered thanks to the IT industry.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
25 Sep. 2025
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Homeownership, once the bedrock of the American middle class, is slipping away.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Another index of consumer sentiment, measured daily by Morning Consult, shows that middle-class consumer confidence fell off a cliff this summer.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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Getty Images for IMDb Director Alex Winter’s Adulthood might be about the secrets and struggles of America's middle-class, but there's something very British about the darkly comedic romp.—
Simon Thompson,
Forbes.com,
19 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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The film’s portrayal of Kafka as a misunderstood genius stymied by bourgeois capitalist priorities is sympathetic but hardly radical, while its engagement with his actual work is limited, give or take some canny quotation in Marek Epstein’s script.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
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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
Adjective
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There are 577 bridges in Milwaukee, and only 5% are considered to be in poor condition, according to a new Wisconsin Policy Forum report.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Last week, as financial panic escalated following Milei’s party’s poor showing in local elections, Argentina’s central bank spent more than $1 billion of its foreign currency reserves to keep the peso from collapsing.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Adaptive fashion has often meant plain and uninspiring clothing.—
Finbarr Toesland,
Robb Report,
24 Sep. 2025
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Cut out shapes, like fruit or animals, or letters from scrap fabric, and stitch them onto a plain shirt or sweatshirt.—
Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Working-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working-class. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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