bourgeoisie

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Recent Examples of bourgeoisie La Notte, another standout, sees her light up a contemplative drama about the Italian bourgeoisie. Rob Ledonne, Vogue, 6 June 2025 This creative evolution has expanded papier-mâché’s market appeal, with a new generation of clientele emerging – a group that includes interior designers, a local urban bourgeoisie, and international buyers. Fahad Shah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2025 The company was started around the same time as other famous French stores like Le Bon Marché (1852) and La Samaritaine (1870), both of which, like Printemps, catered to the country’s growing bourgeoisie. Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025 According to theory, words referred not to the world they were tasked with representing but only to other words in a ruthless system where meaning was elusive, reality an illusion and the self a romantic fiction perpetrated by the capitalist bourgeoisie. Emily Eakin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bourgeoisie
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Noun
  • Somehow, this respectable foe of radicalism had organized the political realignment that broke up the Union, sustained the war that overthrew the South’s ruling class, and managed the struggle that emancipated its proletariat.
    Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • As is the case with the aesthetics of people, exquisite lines can be found on patrician and proletariat cars alike.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Can the party craft an economic message that speaks to the anxieties of the working and middle class?
    Averi Harper, ABC News, 21 July 2025
  • But most are middle class, and about a third of the charts in his office’s filing cabinets are blue, indicating Medicaid.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Like so many cities in America, though perhaps more so in working class three-shift towns, New Britain was filled with enormous three-floor, three-family wooden houses, each with apartments stacked one atop the other.
    Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2025
  • Solid working class, my dad often worked two, sometimes even three, tough physical jobs to support his large family.
    Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2025

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“Bourgeoisie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeoisie. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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