upwardly mobile
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The site’s imagery—replete with barrel curls, pink cowboy boots and milkmaid dresses—sketches an ideal of a modern conservative woman: a churchgoing, city-dwelling young mother who is employed and upwardly mobile.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
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
The girls and their mother made regular appearances in the social column of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, the model of an upwardly mobile and professional black family.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
