lower class
Example Sentences
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Much smaller shares, in the single digits, placed themselves at the far ends of the class spectrum, as upper class or lower class.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
"Do you want to make savings from falling pupil numbers, or do you want to maintain spending the way it is, and have lower class sizes?"
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Instead, she and two of her sisters each moved to Mexico City to do one of the few jobs available to them as lower class women: domestic work.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024
For people of a lower class, it feels like there is desire to believe a meritocracy does exist.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023
Very few respondents called themselves lower class or upper class—7 percent and 1 percent.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
