the well-to-do
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When you think of who is winning, that’s the well-to-do and wealthy, or people with most of their assets in stocks, Zandi said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
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
And, really, the well-to-do of California and the rest of the world would never go and pick their own strawberries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 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 poorest went on living in burrows of the most primitive kind, mere holes indeed, with only one window or none; while the well-to-do still constructed more luxurious versions of the simple diggings of old.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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