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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
Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
But what does success even mean for a rock band in 2025, especially a working-class, do-it-yourself one like Thrice?
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
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
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Noun
Joyful spirit Thomas grew up in South East London in a working-class family, and considered, at some point, going into finance.
—Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
But what does success even mean for a rock band in 2025, especially a working-class, do-it-yourself one like Thrice?
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
My parents were working class people.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working-class
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With less money being invested by record labels into touring, that has created a top-heavy artist hierarchy, with the rich getting richer and the poor and middle class falling by the wayside.—
Roy Trakin,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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After years in the (ahem) wilderness of the NHL’s mushy middle class, the Wild appear positioned for something more, finally giving one of the most passionate markets in the league something to cheer for.—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The first two seasons of The Bear were simultaneously very funny and also earned their panic-attack-inducing tension by grounding the characters and story in the dysfunctions of a middle-class family in Chicago.—
Andrew Bernard,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Oct. 2025
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Elsewhere in the talk, Altschuler recalled bonding with King of the Hill co-creator Mike Judge over their middle-class background.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 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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Similar protests occurred in Brazil over steep living costs and poor healthcare and education ahead of the country hosting the 2014 World Cup tournament.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Over time, dysfunctional breathing reinforces poor posture and scapular instability.—
Dana Santas,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Music industry machinations are mostly to blame; a higher supply of albums means more sales, which translates into chart performance and popularity and plain old checks to cash.—
Heather Bushman,
IndyStar,
1 Oct. 2025
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The locker rooms and antechambers behind the scenes are drab and plain.—
Richard Lawson,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Working-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working-class. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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