social class
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But in a number of African countries, access to it is still reserved for a certain social class, said Ablaye Seck, an energy efficiency expert in Senegal.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Not that Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s doomed-by-their-own-hands love affair ever needed the exposure; Brontë’s themes of obsession, revenge, social class and the supernatural are still analyzed in high school English classes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
Her aim was to "redress the social injustice linked to social class at birth", she said in her Nobel lecture in 2022.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
Jeff Bokor saw work as an entree to a social class he aspired to as a young man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
But in those first few days in Portland the anxieties of my actual social class take over.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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