lower class
Example Sentences
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“Even if a government job is lower class, it is still prestigious in Bangladesh,” Amin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
"For the first time it was the Kenyan people - the working class and the middle class and the lower class - against the ruling class," says Mwangi.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025
"Before then, Americans were typically more likely to self-identify as members of the middle or upper-middle class and less likely to say they belonged to the working or lower class."
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2024
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
Very few respondents called themselves lower class or upper class—7 percent and 1 percent.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
