affluent
Example Sentences
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“People would love to make this a kind of us versus them, you know, affluent businesspeople trying to keep out workers,” said Larry Kamer, a communications consultant who helped organize the opposition.
The SNP also promised to invest £1bn to close the "attainment gap" in schools - the difference in performance between pupils from more affluent and more deprived backgrounds.
From BBC
Ms. Andrade seems to have grown up in a fairly affluent environment—peacocks stroll about the family swimming pool, and her mother exposed her to sports and ballet from an early age.
The original vision I had was to do a parody of life in affluent suburbs, but with plenty of reality in it.
From Los Angeles Times
The practice is also more common among more affluent families, according to the report.
From Los Angeles Times
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