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affluent

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




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Assignments didn’t go unread, unassessed or ungraded because affluent children attended elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Gen Z lags “behind other generations in retirement-account and individual-stock ownership, likely due to being less affluent overall,” said John McKenna, a senior analyst at the asset- and wealth-management research firm Cerulli Associates.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

The London dialect became the standard of education, government, and business, and it was also the dialect of better-educated and more affluent speakers throughout the Anglosphere.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

From the north three great glacier-bred affluents make their way to the river of Gilgit, joining it at almost equal intervals, and each of them affords opportunity for a rough passage northwards.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

The Amazonian affluents are mostly navigable from the main river to the foot of these cascades.

From South America and the War by F. A. (Frederick Alexander) Kirkpatrick

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

The approach from the west was barred by the Kerkha, and from the east by the Dizful and its affluents.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker




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