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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
Nathan Smith, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
Ani attempts to hustle her way out of the working class, while Ivan sees America as a hedonistic paradise, an escape from the responsibilities and expectations of life in Russia.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2024
Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2024
The sweeping biopic charts the rise of the pop star, from his days as a cheeky 8-year-old in a working-class U.K. town to his battles with the usual pitfalls of fame and money.
—Ramin Zahed, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Noun
This historical period -- which ran from the 1870s and to the early 20th century -- saw rapid industrialization and significant wealth disparity, with a small elite growing rich while the working class faced poverty.
—Nathan Smith, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
Ani attempts to hustle her way out of the working class, while Ivan sees America as a hedonistic paradise, an escape from the responsibilities and expectations of life in Russia.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2024
Adjective
The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes
by John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira
Judis and Teixeira examine why the Democratic Party has hemorrhaged the support of white working-class and lower-middle-class voters—and argue that the party now badly needs to take a hard look at itself.
—Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2024
The sweeping biopic charts the rise of the pop star, from his days as a cheeky 8-year-old in a working-class U.K. town to his battles with the usual pitfalls of fame and money.
—Ramin Zahed, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working class
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The middle class built America, and unions built the middle class.Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Dec. 2024
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Unions, instrumental in building the mid-20th-century middle class, continue to benefit society, with one in nine U.S. workers unionized.Solange Charas, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Paul Thornton: Even in L.A. County’s solidly middle-class towns, home prices are soaring out of reach.Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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Unlike some of her peers, Headland knows how to write striving middle-class characters born of suburban discontent rather than privilege.Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
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Even before the Atlantic City Boardwalk became the iconic scene of the Roaring ‘20s New Jersey bourgeoisie, the Jersey Shore was already increasingly a vacation spot for the wealthy.Andrew DePietro, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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Then a hotelier hung Nymphs and Satyr in a public bar, shaking up NYC's bourgeoisie.JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
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The Housemaid is an excessively perverse drama about a bourgeois family torn apart by a patriarch’s affair, and the dread of discovery by the community at large.Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 28 Oct. 2024
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Divorce or no, Faye is still a bourgeois British woman who quietly goes from having a loan on her countryside home to being an honored guest at literary festivals across Europe.Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 28 June 2024
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So this poor kid [who finished in last], this single guy, for a year had to have a Fathead of his buddy in boxers, a giant life-size Fathead above his bed.Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
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In many poor and densely populated neighborhoods across the country, people have access to free, unmetered electricity.Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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These are all radical Islamic terrorist organizations, plain and simple.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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Use plain language in your policies, and provide users with clear, easy-to-find controls for managing their preferences.Jodi Daniels, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Working class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20class. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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