Gilded Age
Example Sentences
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Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Originally developed as the summer playground for some of Cleveland’s wealthiest industrial titans, the village is defined by grand, Gilded Age lakefront estates and intact original carriage houses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
That conceit ended up an unsubtle but no less effective metaphor for our new Gilded Age.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
After the deaths of their parents, the aging bluebloods holed up in their stately Harlem rowhouse, once a picture of Gilded Age polish, and became a public curiosity.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Not accidentally, these novels coincided with America’s Gilded Age, the era of overnight fortunes and conspicuous spending that followed in the wake of the Civil War.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
