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clientele

[klahy-uhn-tel, klee-ahn-] / ˌklaɪ ənˈtɛl, ˌkli ɑn- /


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Other than the storybooks and other signs of K-12 clientele, the facilities wouldn’t be out of place at a nice university, and that includes the sloping lecture hall.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Michael Eisenberg, who co-owns the swim equipment business with his brother, Craig, worries about losing clientele.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

Besides the city's highbrow cultural offerings, its status as a centre of congress and diplomacy also helps attract a wealthy and worldly clientele.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

The Big Tech types whose main value still stems from their consumer products, like Apple, have no choice but to wait behind the preferred clientele, and to price-gouge their own shrinking inventories in the meantime.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2026

There were restaurants and nightclubs, a lot of them foreign-owned, that served a mixed clientele, black people who hated the status quo and white people who simply thought it ridiculous.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah




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