Gilded Age
Example Sentences
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As the Gilded Age rolled on, one female game designer subverted the script.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026
Government and private money are flowing in quantities that would make a Gilded Age robber baron blush.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025
"More than that, though, it has also become symbolic of a lifestyle of a bygone era -- the type only possible with a Gilded Age fortune."
From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025
Give Twain full credit: When writing that novel, he also intuited that the economic juggernaut driving his Gilded Age would come crashing down in what proved to be the devastating panic of 1893.
From Salon • Jul. 30, 2025
They resemble the arrivistes of the Gilded Age, which began in the 1880s when industrial capitalists amassed staggering fortunes, except that there are so many of them and they seem to be relatively anonymous.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
