as in influx
a flowing or coming in
this affluence of new students is straining an already crowded school system
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Global Travel Statistics Travel media has ample room for growth by incorporating the latest innovations to achieve responsible storytelling as global affluence inspires more people to travel.
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Geoff Whitmore, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
To propose a plural fate for modernity in the non-Western world is not to suggest that the trajectory of politicized caste, ethnicity, and religion in India or elsewhere leads inevitably to the universal affluence dreamed of by socialists in the past and flat-earth globalizers in the present.
—Pankaj Mishra, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
When Ciotti was young, his family moved west to Turin, the embodiment of Italian affluence and sophistication, and his father found work in construction.
—D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
Desi Arnaz—was born into affluence and nobility in Santiago de Cuba in 1917.
—Raj Tawney, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024
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Geoff Whitmore, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
To propose a plural fate for modernity in the non-Western world is not to suggest that the trajectory of politicized caste, ethnicity, and religion in India or elsewhere leads inevitably to the universal affluence dreamed of by socialists in the past and flat-earth globalizers in the present.
—Pankaj Mishra, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
When Ciotti was young, his family moved west to Turin, the embodiment of Italian affluence and sophistication, and his father found work in construction.
—D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
Desi Arnaz—was born into affluence and nobility in Santiago de Cuba in 1917.
—Raj Tawney, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Affluence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affluence. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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