Gilded Age
Example Sentences
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Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
That conceit ended up an unsubtle but no less effective metaphor for our new Gilded Age.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
Texas churches also spoke out against inequality during the Gilded Age — a late 19th-century period of rapid industrial growth that produced extreme wealth inequality, Locke said.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
In “The House of Mirth,” Edith Wharton’s gut-wrenching Gilded Age tragedy, Lily Bart, beautiful and elegant and poor, has been raised to marry for money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
They resemble the arrivistes of the Gilded Age, which began in the 1880s when industrial capitalists amassed staggering fortunes, except that there are so many of them and they seem to be relatively anonymous.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
