affluent
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In fact, many affluent retirees with very large traditional IRAs intentionally accelerate withdrawals or Roth conversions for that reason.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Sag Harbor,” set in the mostly Black, affluent beach community in the Hamptons, is the closest Whitehead has come to writing a coming-of-age story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Pricey options to escape airport hordes and hassles are multiplying as affluent travelers seek more comfort and less friction without shelling out for a private jet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Young women in more affluent cities remain the app's core user base, according to Qiangua.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
The tank rolled past the affluent homes, the gables and turrets, the porte cocheres.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
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
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 Lyman, William Denison
The Amazonian affluents are mostly navigable from the main river to the foot of these cascades.
From South America and the War by Kirkpatrick, F. A. (Frederick Alexander)
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 Cook, Sherburne F.
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