status seeking

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Still, findings are limited since the study comprises a group of mostly white women of high socioeconomic status seeking fertility care.

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024

In short, owning an NFT combines traditional Veblenesque status seeking with a 21st-century icing of crypto-cool.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2021

The most effective status-seeking style is mockery of status seeking.

From Time Magazine Archive

John O'Hara is drubbed for his vanity and status seeking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hitting hard at pretentious commencements, big-time football and marching bands that "serve merely as public entertainment," Conant snorts that all such status seeking is utterly without "sound educational reason."

From Time Magazine Archive