upwardly mobile
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Toubul estimates that out of 120 seats in the Israeli Knesset, there are 10 to 12 seats’ worth of upwardly mobile Mizrahim who feel politically homeless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
“But I still do think of this card as being worthwhile for the upwardly mobile, young professional renter. It actually is one of the most lucrative transferable-points cards on the market.”
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 29, 2026
Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
This happens when an upwardly mobile country can't offer ultra-low wages anymore, but at the same time doesn't have the innovative capacity to create the high-end goods and services of an advanced economy.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
Her mother, Ann, was a Powell, another educated, upwardly mobile colored family—and the same Powells who would two generations later produce Colin Powell.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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