affluent
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In fact, the results in the ex-mining town of Hetton-le-Hole were as strong as the most affluent parts of southern England.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
Walgreens proceeded to shutter 60 VillageMD clinics as part of its strategy to focus on “our highest opportunity markets,” Driscoll said, meaning affluent urban and suburban areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
In Short Hills, N.J., an affluent suburb of New York City where many homes sell for more than their asking price, real-estate agent Chrissy Schwartz’s buyer clients have been getting creative with their all-cash offers.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
There are elaborate portraits of seemingly affluent Black couples, a proud school band, and women learning dressmaking at an institute in the deep southern state of Alabama.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Among the reasons he and others have cited for the blindness of the affluent is the fact that they are less and less likely to share spaces and services with the poor.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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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
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
It is in Ghor that rise all those affluents of the closed basin of Seistan, the Hari-rud, the Farah-rud, the Khash-rud, besides other considerable streams joining the Helmund above Girishk.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various
Between 30 and 50 m. above the falls the Gambia is joined by two considerable affluents, the Nieriko from the north and the Kuluntu or Grey river from the south.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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
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