leisure class
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Vincent’s day job as a senior reporter for the Verge plants him firmly in the present, and he brings the reader up to the current craze of the leisure class: the “quantified self” movement.
From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022
Gillespie said the rule is "kind of a holdover from the leisure class."
From Fox News • Sep. 6, 2021
“They used to be this glaring symbol that you were a lady of the leisure class, right?” said Stellene Volandes, the editor in chief of Town & Country..
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2020
They didn’t want to overthrow the leisure class.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2019
A jungle yields no abundance to feed the multitudes, and supports no leisure class.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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