better-off
Example Sentences
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"Sometimes, if medicines are leftover from the baby of a better-off family, we use it for the babies whose families cannot afford it," Fatima says.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Yes, good public schools exist, but they tend to be in communities where only the better-off can afford to live.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
Bankers interpret this as a sign that slightly better-off consumers are absorbing the higher prices, while lower-income customers are increasingly cutting back or seeking cheaper alternatives.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
It’s not to drag the relatively better-off down to the bottom, but to allow more people to pull themselves up.
From Slate • Aug. 25, 2025
In 1793 over 50 percent of Philadelphia’s blacks were live-in domestic workers, doing the cooking, cleaning, laundering, and child caring for better-off whites.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
