affluent
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River or the more affluent people seeking them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Young women in more affluent cities remain the app's core user base, according to Qiangua.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Although he has often said she struggled to make ends meet, his father Olivier, also of Italian origin, ran a drinks distribution business and lived in the more affluent town of Montmorency.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
More affluent buyers also have more for-sale inventory to choose from.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
It was one of the prettier, more affluent parts of the South Side, where people kept two cars in the driveway and had abundant beds of flowers blooming along their walkways.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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This “we are like you, but slightly better” model has many less-affluent Millennials wishing for earlier times when affluents entirely segregated themselves rather than show them what they are missing out on.
From Forbes ● Oct. 2, 2012
Then they shed their moisture on its eastern slopes, which give birth to the multitudinous upper waters of the Orinoco, the Amazon and the western affluents of the River Plate.
From South America and the War by Kirkpatrick, F. A. (Frederick Alexander)
The road, after leaving the mountains, has very few affluents, the only constructed bridges for the distance being one over the Loup Fork and the North Platte.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
The Yellow Stone, being one of the principal affluents of375 the Missouri, receives several considerable streams, of which the following are the chief:— 1.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp
Of its numerous affluents the most important is the Sil, which rises among the lofty mountains between Leon and Asturias.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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