privileged class
Example Sentences
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Oliver almost passes with the privileged class as Farleigh indicates.
From Salon • Nov. 22, 2023
You may think of Hollywood creatives as a privileged class, but if their employers think about them like this, are you sure yours thinks any differently of you?
From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2023
“The everyday person wouldn’t be treated this way, but it’s the privileged class that escapes accountability for whatever they do,” said criminal defense attorney James Bopp.
From Washington Times • Jun. 20, 2023
The Houstons were part of a small, privileged class of Black people that flourished during Reconstruction.
From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2022
The first attempt to form a state broke up the gentes by dividing their members against one another and opposing a privileged class to a class of disowned belonging to two different branches of production.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
