affluent
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Born William Joseph Gabriel Doyle in 1873, the future priest had a comfortable, middle-class childhood in the affluent Dublin suburb of Dalkey.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
During the 1980s, it ranked among Israel's more affluent municipalities and hosted the country's largest music festival.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1982 into an affluent family, Omar arrived in the U.S. in the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
"There's a wide inequity between women in more affluent areas and women in poorer areas."
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The rest, children of the island’s slightly more affluent, paid fifty cents a lesson.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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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
The road, after leaving the mountains, has very few affluents, the only constructed bridges for the distance being one over the Loup Fork and the North Platte.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
The chief game of the area was the antelope herds which were found on affluents of the Green River, northeast of Kemmerer.
From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Robert F. Murphy
Here are five distinct ridges, up and down, and through and around which, the Columbia and its affluents chase each other in a dizzy dance.
From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman
It should be noted that the area embraced within this estimate includes the Kings River basin as a whole, together with that of all its affluents.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne F. Cook
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