Gilded Age
Example Sentences
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Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
That conceit ended up an unsubtle but no less effective metaphor for our new Gilded Age.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
After the deaths of their parents, the aging bluebloods holed up in their stately Harlem rowhouse, once a picture of Gilded Age polish, and became a public curiosity.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Gilded Age industrialists such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie felt an obligation to give back, Amodei wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
A battle followed, fought in true Gilded Age fashion with oblique snubs and poisonous courtesy.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
