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clientele

[klahy-uhn-tel, klee-ahn-] / ˌklaɪ ənˈtɛl, ˌkli ɑn- /


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The average Krispy Kreme customer only buys its products two or three times a year, and around half of its clientele is under 35.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 6, 2026

The Big Tech types whose main value still stems from their consumer products, like Apple, have no choice but to wait behind the preferred clientele, and to price-gouge their own shrinking inventories in the meantime.

From Slate • Jul. 2, 2026

On the song, she captures the club's electrifying clientele in a rap section that riffs on Vogue's roll-call of Hollywood legends.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2026

It boasts over $10 million in sales annually, with the clientele including hundreds of Iranian companies and government entities, the filing said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

There were restaurants and nightclubs, a lot of them foreign-owned, that served a mixed clientele, black people who hated the status quo and white people who simply thought it ridiculous.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah




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