Example Sentences

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For her, that means honoring parents and speaking up to them, favoring salt-of-the-earth working-class blacks over the starched Buppies and, at the end of the play, praising Jesus in scripture and song.

From Time • Nov. 17, 2011

"Buppies" live in handsome Soweto neighborhoods like Diepkloof and drive their BMWs to work each day.

From Time Magazine Archive