the well-to-do
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Like the U.S. broadly, rich people are keeping the party going in New York, and powering a burgeoning local economy that caters to the well-to-do.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025
The son of an architect who grew up in the well-to-do Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights, Kirk attended a community college near Chicago before dropping out to devote himself to political activism.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025
“The finances of the well-to-do have never been better, their spending never stronger, and the economy never more dependent on that group,” Zandi told WSJ.
From Salon • Feb. 24, 2025
Every now and again, the app mints an unlikely new star: Take the current obsession with the well-to-do Atlanta couple Jett Puckett and his wife, Campbell, or as he affectionately calls her, Pookie.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024
The poorest went on living in burrows of the most primitive kind, mere holes indeed, with only one window or none; while the well-to-do still constructed more luxurious versions of the simple diggings of old.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
