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well-to-do

adjective as in well-off

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The son of an architect who grew up in the well-to-do Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights, Kirk attended a community college near Chicago before dropping out to devote himself to political activism.

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Peggy’s family, the Scotts, are a well-to-do pillar of Brooklyn’s Black community headed by a formerly enslaved man who became a pharmacist and built his upper-middle-class family’s wealth from the ground up.

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"We need a system that ensures access for the poor and prevents misuse by the well-to-do."

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Under the current system, the president says, judges routinely spring organized crime figures, tax cheats and other well-to-do criminals, while impunity for murder and other crimes is the norm.

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In effect, Kennedy isn't banning the vaccine — he's just making sure that only well-to-do people like himself have access.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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