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The Black middle- and upper-classes also left for the suburbs once redlining was outlawed, leaving a desperate underclass in the city.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2020

It was Nancy's eye for parody that found humour in the dialogue of the upper-classes.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2014

So terrified of crime are the middle- and upper-classes that some affluent Caracas neighborhoods are like ghost towns from as early as 8 p.m.

From Reuters • Feb. 20, 2014

There is a much more even distribution of wealth in Detroit, a place from which the middle and upper-classes have fled.

From Economist • Aug. 30, 2013

In short, it was an age when general cynicism and reckless abandonment to pleasure marked the upper-classes; an age which produced Chesterfield, as godless a man as Voltaire himself.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers by Lord, John