as in middle class
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
Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
More Americans live paycheck to paycheck Paycheck-to-paycheck living isn’t just for the working class anymore, according to community finance platform SoLo’s 2025 Cash Poor Report.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2025
The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2025
And now, the mayor has cut taxes again on working-class families by $63 million.
—Randy Mastro, New York Daily News, 4 May 2025
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Noun
Lopakhin and Varya are pushed together throughout the play, but poor Varya, also born working class, will never be able to break through the part of Lopakhin that still idolizes the very nobility that oppressed his family for generations.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
More Americans live paycheck to paycheck Paycheck-to-paycheck living isn’t just for the working class anymore, according to community finance platform SoLo’s 2025 Cash Poor Report.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
For decades, both parties have overseen a slow erosion of the economic foundation that once allowed working-class Americans to get ahead.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2025
And now, the mayor has cut taxes again on working-class families by $63 million.
—Randy Mastro, New York Daily News, 4 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working class
Noun
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The same place that’s a magnet for the rich could be squeezing out its lower and middle classes.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2025
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Roath spoke about his family history, sharing that his mother and father met and found a way into the middle class via good jobs at IBM.—
Matthew Medsger,
Boston Herald,
8 May 2025
Adjective
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The middle-class Altadena family at the heart of her new novel, ‘Bug Hollow,’ is also confronted with crises at every turn.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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For instance, while specific demographic data was not collected, all the children had predominantly white middle-class backgrounds, so the results reflect how typical children in northern England behave in such situations.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
15 May 2025
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This creative evolution has expanded papier-mâché’s market appeal, with a new generation of clientele emerging – a group that includes interior designers, a local urban bourgeoisie, and international buyers.—
Fahad Shah,
Christian Science Monitor,
2 Apr. 2025
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The company was started around the same time as other famous French stores like Le Bon Marché (1852) and La Samaritaine (1870), both of which, like Printemps, catered to the country’s growing bourgeoisie.—
Lanna Apisukh,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Baldwin was fluent in the language of bourgeois respectability and dressed the part when the occasion called for it.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Every possible ill, every source of embarrassment to their bourgeois sensibilities, was blamed on the plant.—
Wade Davis,
Rolling Stone,
6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns each added 23 points and OG Anunoby bounced back from two poor performances by scoring 20 for the Knicks, who can win the series Wednesday night at Boston.—
Brian Mahoney,
Baltimore Sun,
13 May 2025
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This results in a very poor Debt-to-Equity Ratio of 232.7% (against 21.5% for the S&P 500).—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
Adjective
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During Kenya’s mass protests last year, demonstrators created chatbots to explain complex legislation in plain language to help their peers understand its impact.—
Erika Page,
Christian Science Monitor,
10 May 2025
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There are date-night options ranging from the expensive to the affordable, from the romantic to the just plain fun.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
9 May 2025
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“Working class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20class. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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