socially mobile
Example Sentences
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Some reestablished themselves outside of the inner city, following their original White clients as they became more socially mobile.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2022
They said rural areas were among the country's least "socially mobile".
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2018
On one end of the spectrum, Kwong identified the Western-educated, socially mobile, code-switching “uptown Chinese”; on the other end were the non-English-speaking, blue-collar “downtown Chinese.”
From The New Yorker ● May 3, 2017
He is also one of the most socially mobile black men in Selma.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2015
Half a century ago, in the film adaptation of Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar, a new generation of socially mobile northerners were urged to get on the train to London and make something of their lives.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 18, 2013
