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View definitions for upwardly mobile

upwardly mobile

adjective as in likely to advance

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For many upwardly mobile Black Americans, getting white approval is still necessary for success.

From Slate

Her parents, Russian Jewish immigrants, were as conventional as they were upwardly mobile.

District 1, formerly held by Cedillo, and District 14, represented by De León, have seen an influx of white people and upwardly mobile Latinos over the past generation.

He, along with Ross Douthat, also argued for Republicans to embrace policies on health care and wage subsidies that, they claimed, would appeal to women, the working class, and “upwardly mobile minorities.”

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She believes in private property, is upwardly mobile and affluent, a member of the elite class, and one of the senior members of a Democratic Party that has embraced “free market solutions,” Silicon Valley, and Wall Street instead of the needs of average Americans for decades.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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