affluent
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The affluent coastal community gave its native son 51% of the vote in the June 2 primary, which would have been enough to win the job outright.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
"Those less affluent children are prioritised for 22.5 hours because that is going to ensure they are not on the backfoot as they enter into primary school."
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
This combination — a demographic conveyor belt of affluent consumers entering the ages when gravity becomes an issue — is a compelling investment thesis.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
Still, Perlis breaks the flow just enough to offer a few reasons why the region became America’s affluent bohemia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
And these Ivy League evangelicals, in turn, are just a small fraction of the large number of their affluent fellow believers.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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
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 D. C. Cloud
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
Between 30 and 50 m. above the falls the Gambia is joined by two considerable affluents, the Nieriko from the north and the Kuluntu or Grey river from the south.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
His chief purpose was to visit a natural bridge of rock across one of the affluents of the James river, in the Appalachian mountains.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
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