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affluent

[af-loo-uhnt, uh-floo-] / ˈæf lu ənt, əˈflu- /




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Chief Executive Karl Mistry said the market remains challenging but the company’s results were solid given the resilience of its affluent customer base.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Credit-card issuers are eager to sign up people they hope will remain loyal as they become more affluent.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

A clash is brewing in the affluent enclave, where homes typically sell for $2 million or more.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Responding to criticism that the new district lumps together communities with little in common, Hickey argued that the United States itself is "a mix of different people," encompassing urban neighborhoods, affluent suburbs and rural communities.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

He picked Tisch Hospital, part of New York University Medical Center, an academic center with relatively affluent patients, and passed up Bellevue, a city-run hospital with one of the busiest emergency rooms in New York.

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

Here are five distinct ridges, up and down, and through and around which, the Columbia and its affluents chase each other in a dizzy dance.

From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

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 F. A. (Frederick Alexander) Kirkpatrick

This brilliant exploit was effected whilst Wellington engaged the attention of Soult about the Gaves, affluents of the Adour, near Orthez.

From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Its principal affluents are the Prosen on the right and the Noran on the left.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various




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