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
In that respect, a little shake-up may be a welcome change, because the league’s privileged class has gotten a little haughty lately.
From New York Times • May 1, 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
In every case there is found, as the adviser of the executive, a Boulē, or council, representative of the privileged class.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
