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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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Thurmond said he would build two million housing units on surplus land on school sites around the state and provide a tax break for working and middle class Californians.

According to ratings agency Crisil, lower taxes will benefit a third of an average consumer's monthly expenditure basket and improve the middle class's purchasing power.

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But through a combination of open-source intelligence, undercover research, and information from a former member of his network, we traced him to a middle class neighbourhood in Dubai - Jumeirah Village Circle.

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The 1960s middle classes could not afford haute couture, but yearned for a stylish, distinctive look of their own.

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The author was born in Omaha to Haitian immigrant parents, though Gay stresses that her path “wasn’t particularly difficult in that I grew up middle class and then upper middle class.”

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