How to Use socioeconomic in a Sentence

socioeconomic

adjective
  • Their socioeconomic backgrounds are very different.
  • Americans in the bottom third of the socioeconomic spectrum have been 48% more likely to die of the disease than those in the top third.
    — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The socioeconomic lines between Prospect Heights and Crown Heights began to blur.
    — Larry Buchanan, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • So studies in the US may show a lot more benefits, but those could be due to socioeconomic background.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 May 2021
  • Nolen is on the upper rungs of that socioeconomic ladder.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
  • But the losses in population tended to be at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale, and the state has grown steadily richer.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The school recently led peer mid- to high-poverty schools in reading scores, and in closing racial and socioeconomic gaps.
    — al, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The school flew the flag of élite access for first-generation students, but within that group it was set up to reward those at the socioeconomic top.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The plan was opposed by some parent groups that wanted 20% of the spots at the schools set aside for the best applicants regardless of socioeconomic status.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 17 July 2021
  • The school has tried to focus on special preference for socioeconomic status but that has not proven a perfect proxy for race.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 29 June 2023
  • But the uptake of testing and shift in social norms has been polarized along socioeconomic lines.
    — Krithika Varagur, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The reasons are layered and complex, as the lack of healthcare access, brought on by socioeconomic status, is a factor.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 22 Mar. 2024
  • According to Bonowitz, factors like ableism and racial and socioeconomic bias in the criminal justice system pose too much of a threat to warrant the use of the death penalty.
    — Kendall Ross, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Somewhere along the way, I’d been conditioned to believe thriving was about my socioeconomic post in life and not my purpose.
    — Ashlee Marie Preston, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 July 2021
  • Many concluded that damages were far off in time and that socioeconomic systems would have time to adjust.
    — David Schimel, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Meanwhile results about who loses the most learning, whether by race or socioeconomic status or grade level, are all over the place.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 10 July 2023
  • A lot of these athletes come from poor socioeconomic backgrounds.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
  • The effects were more pronounced among those with a higher socioeconomic status, those who weren’t as close to family or friends or those who were older, the study found.
    — Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 13 July 2021
  • The study also found that Black women in the highest income had a 20% increase in the odds of suicide compared to white women in the lowest socioeconomic status.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 5 Sep. 2024
  • There are also scenes of upheaval and rioting in the streets in the movie, and political and socioeconomic unrest.
    — New York Times, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The reasons why people are delaying parenthood are socioeconomic and the state should step in and support those who want to have children.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 22 July 2024
  • The lead-up to some other World Cups, and to some Olympic Games, have also seen heavy media coverage of human rights, socioeconomic, and climate issues.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2022
  • And countries that allow abortions on socioeconomic grounds also allow them in cases of risk to health or life.
    — Josh Ulick, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2022
  • And there was a woman called Heidi Fisher who had come to England and had grown up in a similar socioeconomic background to Erzsébet.
    — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Too few people received shots, in large part due to socioeconomic factors.
    — Powel H. Kazanjian, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2025
  • This allowed the group to appeal to a broad swath of Americans and to unite constituents across socioeconomic, ideological, and racial groups.
    — Dana Suskind, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The caste system is a tiered socioeconomic system that consigns people to a particular group, or caste.
    — Myriam Renaud, The Conversation, 5 July 2023
  • The racist massacre is a harsh reminder of socioeconomic neglect the community has decried for decades.
    — Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 19 June 2022
  • Research shows that people who are nonwhite, female and of lower socioeconomic status or education level are most likely to fall into this gap.
    — Eleanor Rivera, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Since the pandemic, mental health has also been a rising workplace challenge, and it's further exacerbated by socioeconomic issues, global conflicts and political disagreements that increasingly come up at work.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025

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