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
This happens when an upwardly mobile country can't offer ultra-low wages anymore, but at the same time doesn't have the innovative capacity to create the high-end goods and services of an advanced economy.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025
Hairy-backed grandpas are yielding to upwardly mobile startup founders and creative types.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 12, 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
