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
Ulamá—the doctors of Divinity and Law—continued to increase, so that ere long they formed a privileged class, occupying in Islam a position not unlike that of the priesthood in mediæval Christendom.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
