upper class
Example Sentences
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“Poor people are as bad off as in the special period, but a segment of middle and upper class have access to dollars and are not in such bad shape, which causes real social tension.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
It is, as she says, both appropriation of the trappings of the upper class and a challenge to the order they’ve subjected the world to.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2025
The Oscar-winning film, directed by James Cameron, saw Kate Winslet play upper class socialite Rose opposite Leonardo DiCaprio's third class passenger Jack Dawson on the doomed ship's maiden voyage.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2025
In many ways I feel more at home with those folks than I do with the white upper class and other elites who I often travel among personally and professionally.
From Salon • May 23, 2024
Austin taught Fuller to take on the upper class in the black community with the same zeal and uncompromising spirit that he used in confronting the white power structure.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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