steerage
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One of these days, you’ll meet a friend at the airport and they’ll see you enjoying your glass of champagne in first class when they’re bustling their way into steerage.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
If Miranda Priestly can get thrown in steerage, we’re all screwed.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
We tried to fly standby on an earlier departure, but another couple jumped us on the list at the last moment, and a gate agent said it was probably because we had booked into steerage.
From Slate • Oct. 9, 2025
It’s like traveling in steerage on the Titanic.
From Salon • Nov. 28, 2024
Here lived the big-time politicians, the monied brewery families, the well-to-do immigrants who had been able to come over first-class instead of steerage.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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The Devil's Arithmetic
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