upwardly mobile
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The site’s imagery—replete with barrel curls, pink cowboy boots and milkmaid dresses—sketches an ideal of a modern conservative woman: a churchgoing, city-dwelling young mother who is employed and upwardly mobile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
“But I still do think of this card as being worthwhile for the upwardly mobile, young professional renter. It actually is one of the most lucrative transferable-points cards on the market.”
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 29, 2026
Just as his own immigrant forebears assimilated and their children were average, upwardly mobile, all-American citizens, so too are the more recent immigrants.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
He would be joining a seemingly upwardly mobile club - having ended their 56-year trophy drought by winning the Carabao Cup.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
Her mother, Ann, was a Powell, another educated, upwardly mobile colored family—and the same Powells who would two generations later produce Colin Powell.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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