upwardly mobile
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“But I still do think of this card as being worthwhile for the upwardly mobile, young professional renter. It actually is one of the most lucrative transferable-points cards on the market.”
From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026
Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025
Mr. Leguizamo portrays the patriarch of an upwardly mobile Latin-American family who finds himself in choppy waters, both financially and emotionally.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 26, 2025
He would be joining a seemingly upwardly mobile club - having ended their 56-year trophy drought by winning the Carabao Cup.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025
Her mother, Ann, was a Powell, another educated, upwardly mobile colored family—and the same Powells who would two generations later produce Colin Powell.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
