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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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“If you have $4 million in retirement and take out 4% a year, you are hardly rich. You are middle class,” he wrote.

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“If you have $4 million in retirement and take out 4% a year, you are hardly rich. You are middle class,” he wrote.

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One is the Jewish son of an exterminator who rose to Harvard; the other the cerebral product of a striving Black middle class.

Bill, which provided a college education for veterans returning home from World War II, helped expand the middle class and transformed colleges and universities into the entities educating millions of students that we know today.

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Demand is increasing in countries with growing middle classes, such as China, South Africa, and India.

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