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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
Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 2 Mar. 2026
A lot of these candidates are coming from working class backgrounds able to appeal to people who are making $100,000, trying to hold a job and saying, does anybody care about me?
—ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
John Blake, CNN Money, 22 Mar. 2026
Childhood friends Boon and Mike Watt, along with their drummer, George Hurley, came from working-class families and held day jobs throughout the band’s existence.
—Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 21 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Le Corbusier’s working class housing complex, Cité Radieuse, which was part of the architect’s social housing habitat Unité d’Habitation, is often referred to as the catalyst for the style.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 2 Mar. 2026
A lot of these candidates are coming from working class backgrounds able to appeal to people who are making $100,000, trying to hold a job and saying, does anybody care about me?
—ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
Adjective
In his book, Goldstone trains his lens on five working-class families in Atlanta.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 22 Mar. 2026
Childhood friends Boon and Mike Watt, along with their drummer, George Hurley, came from working-class families and held day jobs throughout the band’s existence.
—Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 21 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working class
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Because lower-income and some middle-income Americans pay so little in taxes already, the savings to the higher end of the middle class — all the way up to those who earn in the high six figures under Booker's proposal — will be larger, analysts say.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Academics have described the panic as a response to the growing instability of the middle class, a fear their livelihoods were held up by smoke and mirrors.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
23 Mar. 2026
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But Booker’s and Van Hollen’s plans would each be attempts not just to lower inequality or pay for new social spending, but also to help middle-class families through the tax code.—
Zach Halaschak,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Mar. 2026
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Walter sees middle-class tax cuts as a way to ease the cost of living.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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Noasis, around the corner from Base Camp, is for families of tech bourgeoisie.—
Joe Hagan,
Vanity Fair,
18 Mar. 2026
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Lluís is an embodiment of a kind of pragmatism that reigned in those years among the Catalan bourgeoisie.—
Colm Tóibín,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2026
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Ana Dumitrescu stars as a young Romanian woman who moves to France to work for a bourgeois family and joins an amateur theater troupe adapting Mirbeau’s novel for the stage.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Mar. 2026
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Both of his arms are in the sleeves, and his bourgeois father is kneeling on the floor, taking the shirt in order to conserve it, perhaps saving it from being soiled.—
Theo Belci,
Artforum,
27 Feb. 2026
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And that 44-point home victory was with Brandon Miller having a poor shooting night (5 of 15, 13 points).—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Mar. 2026
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The Dolphins’ struggles during the last decade-plus with Ross signing the checks was a result of poor leadership at the top of the football operations side.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2026
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Words are better at suggesting ambiguity than plain numbers or emojis.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2026
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Experts break down the good, the concerning, and just plain confusing aspects of these controversial recommendations with athletes in mind.—
Outside,
Outside,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Working class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20class. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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