privileged class
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Oliver almost passes with the privileged class as Farleigh indicates.
From Salon • Nov. 22, 2023
The Houstons were part of a small, privileged class of Black people that flourished during Reconstruction.
From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika, or restructuring, yielded to financial lawlessness and the rise of a privileged class of oligarchs resembling organized crime capos.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2022
No school outside of that privileged class, where most of college sports’ millions stream, had reached the playoff, which was instituted for the 2014 season.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2021
Had this metrical system been adopted, it would have established a privileged class.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac