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
That is, she’s a regular kid, a preteen whose idols aren’t the privileged class but the out-sized personalities that make up some of Disney’s most warped characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2019
They were the privileged class at whose disposition were placed all the treasures of Greek and Latin letters.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm