upper

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Three groups were in the middle: lower middle class, core middle class and upper middle class.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

The AEI report, by Stephen Rose and Scott Winship, classified a family of three earning $133,000 to $400,000 in 2024 dollars as upper middle class.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Images released by Ukrainian emergency services showed a building whose upper floors were engulfed in flames.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

The gap between spending by the middle and upper classes is growing bigger, data suggest.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

I was so weak, I had to rest my upper body on the vanity.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall