socially mobile
Example Sentences
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Rereading recently the Snopes and Studs Lonigan trilogies, I was struck by their insight into the emotional debility and ruthlessness of socially mobile men.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022
Some reestablished themselves outside of the inner city, following their original White clients as they became more socially mobile.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2022
They said rural areas were among the country's least "socially mobile".
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2018
On one end of the spectrum, Kwong identified the Western-educated, socially mobile, code-switching “uptown Chinese”; on the other end were the non-English-speaking, blue-collar “downtown Chinese.”
From The New Yorker • May 3, 2017
Mum and Dad came from working-class backgrounds, but were socially mobile, aspirant.
From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2015
