affluent
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"There's a wide inequity between women in more affluent areas and women in poorer areas."
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
But because the survey only interviewed “heads of household,” the data skewed toward Gen Z-ers who were already affluent enough to lead a household at a young age.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
In 2024, the Perlmans sued the dealer, Leslie Roberts, who sold them the works out of his storefront in the affluent Miami neighborhood of Coconut Grove.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
The affluent coastal community gave its native son 51% of the vote in the June 2 primary, which would have been enough to win the job outright.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Kimberly asked, leading the way into a kitchen of shiny chrome and granite and affluent empty space.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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
This river is 429 m. long and receives many affluents from the mountainous region through which it passes, but its course is very precipitous and its mouth obstructed by sand bars.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
Seine river, ancient level of, 214; affluents of, 435.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
After the introduction of chlorination it was found possible to increase the rates more rapidly without adversely affecting the purity of the mixed filter affluents.
From Chlorination of Water by Joseph Race
Of its numerous affluents the most important is the Sil, which rises among the lofty mountains between Leon and Asturias.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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