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For instance, one single-family home in Ladue, an affluent suburb of St. Louis, is currently listed for $6.1 million, and another custom home is listed for about $3.8 million.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026

Another longstanding challenge for hockey is the perception that it remains disproportionately a sport of private schools and affluent families.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Through the settlements, Houck said she hoped Charter would address a disparity in which low-income residents are often stuck with bigger phone and internet bills than residents in more affluent areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Shah said about 40% of Perigold customers each year are new to Wayfair, and it is usually someone who is more affluent and resilient to economic downturns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

“What did you have for dinner last night, Marge?” she’ll ask, Marge being our oldest and most affluent team member, who—thanks to a working commercial fisherman husband—sometimes brings reports from such fine-dining spots as T.G.I.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

This “we are like you, but slightly better” model has many less-affluent Millennials wishing for earlier times when affluents entirely segregated themselves rather than show them what they are missing out on.

From Forbes ● Oct. 2, 2012

One cannot fully understand the River unless he has seen its cradle and the cradle of its affluents beneath the shadows of the great peaks of British Columbia.

From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

This creek and hills should be distinguished from Medicine Knoll and a creek of that name, eastern affluents a few miles higher up.—Ed.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian

Its principal affluents are the Idria, the Wippach and the Torre with its tributary the Judrio, which forms for a short distance the boundary between Austria and Italy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

Hence we can expect no such vast extent of navigable water on them as the Mississippi and its affluents offer.

From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman