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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
Nafees Alam, Boston Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
But some stores in working-class neighborhoods likely rely even more on CalFresh sales, said Stephanie Johnson, vice president of government relations for the National Grocers Association, in an interview with Grocery Dive.
—Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
But he can’t be bothered to address the Republican healthcare crisis crushing working class Americans.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Trump’s tariffs and trade wars prompted Democrats to double down on globalism and free trade, alienating many working-class voters.
—Nafees Alam, Boston Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
But some stores in working-class neighborhoods likely rely even more on CalFresh sales, said Stephanie Johnson, vice president of government relations for the National Grocers Association, in an interview with Grocery Dive.
—Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Two days later, about 400 miles away, two baby girls were found on the floor of a dirty park restroom in Oxnard, a working class California town.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
But he can’t be bothered to address the Republican healthcare crisis crushing working class Americans.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working-class
Noun
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Her more compelling argument is that the one-per-centers are squeezing out the middle class.—
Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
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Also, influencer content is getting really professionalized, and if AI is coming for them, what’s to stop it from coming for a host of other programming that exists in Hollywood’s middle class?—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In May, Muniz celebrated wrapping the reboot after reprising the titular gifted child growing up with three brothers in a middle-class home.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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Today, one-quarter of all Americans have their health care paid for by the program, including 60% of all nursing home residents in the country, many of whom were middle-class in their working years.—
Jim Nowlan,
Mercury News,
23 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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Cultured, cosmopolitan, generally liberal, the Dohnányis and the Bonhoeffers represented the best of the German-speaking bourgeois tradition.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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By then, the preeminent fashion genius of the third quarter of the 20th century and the designer so often credited with inventing the modern woman’s wardrobe had handed prêt-à-porter over to his assistants, who clung as if by commandment to the house dogma of bourgeois Parisian elegance.—
Rob Haskell,
Vogue,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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There’s another element of the current concern regarding due process that relates to the fate of poor Cinna.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Oct. 2025
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McDaniel’s debut album Lost Ones delves into his own story of growing up in a poor community in Kentucky, and dealing with mental health struggles, both personally and within his family — as well as McDaniel’s story of being saved during a past suicide attempt years ago.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The promise of artificial intelligence is that the desktop will disappear entirely and users will only interact with a chatbot or a voice that will carry out their bidding through plain language alone, morphing the entire computer into an anthropomorphized character.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
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It can be enjoyed plain, sweetened, or with a squeeze of lemon.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Working-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working-class. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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