affluent
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Marsh said that affluent kids of the time were drawn to Giorgio Beverly Hills, a boutique on Rodeo Drive that was known as a hot spot for the wealthy and famous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Simply by making affluent black Africans the protagonists, she says she has opened many people's eyes.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The waterfront estate on affluent La Gorce Island has a dock and 100 feet of frontage on Biscayne Bay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
A clash is brewing in the affluent enclave, where homes typically sell for $2 million or more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
By the 1970s, Assemblies churches were sprouting up in affluent suburbs across the country.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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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 Amazonian affluents are mostly navigable from the main river to the foot of these cascades.
From South America and the War by F. A. (Frederick Alexander) Kirkpatrick
Its principal affluents are the Prosen on the right and the Noran on the left.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
This stream waters the country of the mines, and interlocks, by its affluents, with the Gasconade on the west, and the St. Francis on the south.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Then they shed their moisture on its eastern slopes, which give birth to the multitudinous upper waters of the Orinoco, the Amazon and the western affluents of the River Plate.
From South America and the War by F. A. (Frederick Alexander) Kirkpatrick
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