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lower class

[loh-er] / ˈloʊ ər /




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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

"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

Theo doesn’t look down on Vincent for being with someone from a lower class, having done so himself.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman




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