better-off
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Record-high home prices and soaring mortgage rates have priced out many younger buyers, leaving comparatively better-off boomers, who are now between the ages of 61 and 79, as the dominant force in home buying.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
These retailers are aggressively courting better-off customers at the same time that their traditional customers are cutting back due to inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 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
The better-off folk of Welch had not exactly flocked to our part of town.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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