Example Sentences
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Here’s a visual representation of how spending has been stratified among economic classes in recent years.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
For instance, while it is by no means an eat-the-rich manifesto, the musical explores how financially stratified New York—and London and other cities—has become.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
I think what’s bothered me about romance is that people have these stratified steps and a playbook and rules.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2025
The stratified social classes were more apparent to me, from the deeply red, working-class area of Northeast Philadelphia.
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2024
Like medieval Italian city-states, Nudzahui principalities were rigidly stratified, with the king and a small group of kinspeople and noble advisers gobbling up much of the wealth and land.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
