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affluent

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




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American Express earnings show its affluent cardholder base isn’t changing its spending habits even in the face of higher interest rates and sticky inflation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

On Sunday evening, Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff went to play football in Juhu, a leafy, affluent Mumbai neighbourhood where film stars live, fans congregate and celebrity sightings are a part of life.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

“Younger and less affluent buyers have largely left the new-vehicle market,” Sam Fiorani, vice president of global vehicle forecasting at AutoForecast Solutions, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

After Harry and Meghan separated themselves from the British family, they settled in California in the affluent neighborhood of Montecito.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

A few calls confirm my impression that winter housing for the poor consists of motel rooms that the more affluent fill up in the summer.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

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 Alaknanda, one of the main sources of the Ganges, receives with its affluents the whole drainage of the district.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

Thus the Po is said to have long inclined to move its channel southward in consequence of the superior mechanical force of its northern affluents.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh

Into Tanganyika flows the Malagarasi, a considerable river with many affluents, draining the west-central part of the plateau.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various

It is computed by good authority that this river, with its numerous affluents, forms a system of navigable water twenty-four thousand miles in length!

From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou


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