middle classes
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That’s because if high-income shoppers scale back their spending, then the other horizontal lines of the “E” — the lower and middle classes — may not have enough spending power to keep the economy afloat.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
Tales of withering love leading to betrayal among the upper middle classes are almost as common as murder mysteries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Decades of this have disillusioned the working and middle classes into expecting nothing can or will change, that it’s every man, woman and child for themselves.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026
The 1960s middle classes could not afford haute couture, but yearned for a stylish, distinctive look of their own.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025
They were also encouraged not to settle for old-fashioned and “bourgeois” gender roles—“bourgeois” being a catchall term for the upper middle classes of Imperial Russia who’d aspired to wealth and luxury.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
