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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
Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026
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
Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
To make a meaningful difference for working-class New Yorkers, Riddell advises the state’s policymakers to address the inequality through tax increases on the wealthiest and raise revenue for critical public services.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Does Varley see herself as working class?
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026
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
Adjective
Providing relief for working-class families demonstrates leadership and compassion.
—Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
To make a meaningful difference for working-class New Yorkers, Riddell advises the state’s policymakers to address the inequality through tax increases on the wealthiest and raise revenue for critical public services.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working class
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The Pew Research Center defines the middle class as households earning roughly two-thirds to twice the national median household income.—
Bailey Allen,
Cape Cod Times,
28 Mar. 2026
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But where Kohl saw a blow to Idaho’s middle class, Bernt saw an opportunity.—
Mark Dee
March 26,
Idaho Statesman,
26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The tension between highbrow and lowbrow comedy, and what is deemed acceptable by image-conscious Black middle-class audiences, continues to ignite fierce debate—nearly a century after Stepin Fetchit first appeared on-screen.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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Set against the wave of democratization and cultural modernization that swept through South Korea in the early 1990s, the series centers on a middle-class family concealing a treasonous secret.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
25 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
Adjective
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His savior was the experimental documentarian Harun Farocki, famous for provocative works that skewered bourgeois complacency.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
20 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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Serious Medical and Emotional Neglect Turner said Kaiko arrived in poor health, suffering from multiple medical issues and signs of prolonged neglect.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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The city of Plano scores restaurants on a 100-point system, with 100 considered a perfect score and 70 extremely poor.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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This is plain weaponization of the FBI for partisan political purposes.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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Great effort has been made to transform what is ordinarily a plain, beige room into a festive space.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Working class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20class. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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