Gilded Age
Example Sentences
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As the Gilded Age rolled on, one female game designer subverted the script.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026
Ours is a history in which New York robber barons used the promise of belonging to splinter the poor into factions and manipulate them into fighting among themselves during the Gilded Age.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2026
"More than that, though, it has also become symbolic of a lifestyle of a bygone era -- the type only possible with a Gilded Age fortune."
From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025
“Inspired by late Gilded Age architecture and completed in 1899 by the celebrated designer John Duncan,” the description said of the property.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 24, 2025
Not accidentally, these novels coincided with America’s Gilded Age, the era of overnight fortunes and conspicuous spending that followed in the wake of the Civil War.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
