middle class
Example Sentences
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New research shows that the ranks of the affluent have grown markedly over the last 50 years or so, while the lower rungs of the middle class have shrunk.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
The authors found that more families now fall into the two highest-earning groups—upper middle class and rich—and fewer fall into the three lower-earning categories.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
He did not openly identify as gay given the complication of social life in middle class Bengal in the times he lived in.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
“We are middle class and have basically halted all of our discretionary spending.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
They remain aloof from the modern temptation that captivates many in America’s middle class: the temptation to relieve the anonymity of public life by trying to make it intimate.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
