upwardly mobile

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Taking it would be the greatest validation yet of an upwardly mobile team.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 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

Hairy-backed grandpas are yielding to upwardly mobile startup founders and creative types.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 12, 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