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middle class

noun as in neither the nobility nor laboring class

noun as in an economic class perceived as average

adjective as in characteristic of the middle class

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The American middle class encompasses a broad cross section of workers that includes white-collar office employees, nurses and plumbers, although there is no universally accepted definition.

Christianity continues to grow in China, especially among the urban middle class.

"When a luxury house looks at a new country, it considers the number of wealthy people and the rise of a middle class," Epinay said.

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The family lived in a Brooklyn housing project at a time when such accommodations were safe, comfortable and a marker of the American black middle class.

They recruited the middle class to argue the death tax is an immoral double tax that hurts families, farms, and businesses.

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