the well-to-do
Example Sentences
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The exclusive complex, in classic picture-postcard Switzerland scenery, has been welcoming leaders and the well-to-do and for more than 150 years.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
In fact, over the last 50-plus years, a gilded gallery of the well-to-do have tried and spectacularly failed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2025
Like the U.S. broadly, rich people are keeping the party going in New York, and powering a burgeoning local economy that caters to the well-to-do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
“The finances of the well-to-do have never been better, their spending never stronger, and the economy never more dependent on that group,” Zandi told WSJ.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2025
And Carmel, begun by starveling writers and unwanted painters, is now a community of the well-to-do and the retired.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
