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steerage

[steer-ij] / ˈstɪər ɪdʒ /


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One of these days, you’ll meet a friend at the airport and they’ll see you enjoying your glass of champagne in first class when they’re bustling their way into steerage.

From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026

If Miranda Priestly can get thrown in steerage, we’re all screwed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

We tried to fly standby on an earlier departure, but another couple jumped us on the list at the last moment, and a gate agent said it was probably because we had booked into steerage.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2025

It’s like traveling in steerage on the Titanic.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2024

On the eighth day at sea, Lefty Stephanides, grandly, on one knee, in full view of six hundred and sixty-three steerage passengers, proposed to Desdemona Aristos while she sat on a docking cleat.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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