privileged class
Example Sentences
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Oliver almost passes with the privileged class as Farleigh indicates.
From Salon • Nov. 22, 2023
The Houstons were part of a small, privileged class of Black people that flourished during Reconstruction.
From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2022
“When the truth is that Indigenous peoples have, historically and in the present, been the most excluded group. To have them be called a new elite or privileged class, that really hurts.”
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika, or restructuring, yielded to financial lawlessness and the rise of a privileged class of oligarchs resembling organized crime capos.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2022
To guard against the dangers of creating a privileged class through the establishment of an apprenticeship system we must see to it that all alike serve a period of apprenticeship.
From Boy Labour and Apprenticeship by Bray, Reginald Arthur
