upper class
Example Sentences
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“Poor people are as bad off as in the special period, but a segment of middle and upper class have access to dollars and are not in such bad shape, which causes real social tension.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
Two of the central narrators in the book - millionaire Anthony Wistern and his wife Olivia - are in constant conflict, with Anthony's working-class upbringing often clashing with Olivia's upper class roots.
From BBC • Sep. 21, 2024
In many ways I feel more at home with those folks than I do with the white upper class and other elites who I often travel among personally and professionally.
From Salon • May 23, 2024
General Cooper was raised in Mobile in a rarefied world: the Black upper class of the pre-civil rights era.
From New York Times • May 15, 2024
“And all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals.”
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
