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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
Alex Thompson, Axios, 22 Mar. 2025
Spilt Milk is a wonderful coming of age tale set in the blue collar world of Dublin’s working class.
—Scott Phillips, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
The main characters Zoe and Cassie Grossberg grow up in working-class Philadelphia, where many of Weiner’s stories are set.
—Samantha Dunn, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025
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Noun
The party has become the party of the college-educated and for the college-educated — and its members talk like it in ways the working class often finds condescending or alienating.
—Alex Thompson, Axios, 22 Mar. 2025
Spilt Milk is a wonderful coming of age tale set in the blue collar world of Dublin’s working class.
—Scott Phillips, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, with Dreyfuss portraying the ambitious son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
The main characters Zoe and Cassie Grossberg grow up in working-class Philadelphia, where many of Weiner’s stories are set.
—Samantha Dunn, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working class
Noun
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The rise of the Black federal workforce helped build a Black middle class in America after generations of segregation, prejudice and worse, said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, told USA TODAY.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA TODAY,
24 Mar. 2025
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Below, see what’s considered middle class in your state.—
Mike Winters,
CNBC,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The state Capitol is witnessing the collision of two powerful opposing forces, with checks worth hundreds of millions of dollars to poor and middle-class families hanging in the balance.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2025
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The goal is not to take black children out of the black community and expose them to white middle-class values; the goal is to build and strengthen the black community.—
Justin Driver,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2025
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This creative evolution has expanded papier-mâché’s market appeal, with a new generation of clientele emerging – a group that includes interior designers, a local urban bourgeoisie, and international buyers.—
Fahad Shah,
Christian Science Monitor,
2 Apr. 2025
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The company was started around the same time as other famous French stores like Le Bon Marché (1852) and La Samaritaine (1870), both of which, like Printemps, catered to the country’s growing bourgeoisie.—
Lanna Apisukh,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Every possible ill, every source of embarrassment to their bourgeois sensibilities, was blamed on the plant.—
Wade Davis,
Rolling Stone,
6 Apr. 2025
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The concepts minted in the early 1960s by the late French literary critic and philosopher René Girard explain the pathologies of the smartphone age as elegantly as Freud’s explained bourgeois neuroses at the turn of the last century.—
Matthew Gasda,
airmail.news,
27 July 2024
Adjective
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In fact, the massive, albeit picturesque, gullies were made because of poor farming practices during the 1800s.—
Nicole Letts,
Southern Living,
21 Mar. 2025
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The Heat continues to rotate through different starting groups because of injuries and poor play, using six different starting lineups in the last six games and 11 different starting lineups in the last 13 games.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Or skip the color entirely and let your designs pop off plain, undyed eggs.—
Kathy Barnes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Apr. 2025
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Without laws, humans are forced to decide for themselves what constitutes justice or just plain revenge.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Working class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20class. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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