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
He is among the few of his privileged class brave enough to call it out.
From Washington Times • May 8, 2023
The Houstons were part of a small, privileged class of Black people that flourished during Reconstruction.
From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2022
The editors of newspapers are another highly privileged class; doing things, daily and hourly, which set all law and justice at defiance, and invading, with perfect impunity the most precious rights of their fellow-citizens.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore