the privileged
Example Sentences
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With insurance and maintenance costs way up too, new-vehicle shopping is starting to look like a pursuit of the privileged.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
Last August, Gen Z activists began to share terms on social media such as "nepo baby", to describe the privileged children of the Nepalese elite.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
New York can bring enrichment programs into every neighborhood so that excellence isn’t confined to the privileged few.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025
Redford derided not only crookedness, but the perversion of procedure and hard work that resulted in the privileged mounting their success on the backs of others.
From Salon • Sep. 21, 2025
Bardic recitation was by nature collective and unifying; the reading of books, by contrast, promoted independence, privacy, and the hoarding of knowledge by the privileged few.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
