Questão 95

The phrase ‘American Dream’ was officially coined just under 90 years ago $\in a$ book called The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams. He argued it was “that dream of a land $\in$ which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.”

For some today the American Dream means a chance for fame and celebrity, while for others it means succeeding through the old adage of family values and hard work. Still others believe that the American Dream just represents a world closed to all but the elite with their wealth and contacts […]. Meanwhile, surveys have found that almost half of all millennials believe the American Dream is dead. In an ever-changing country, the idea of what the American Dream means to different people is changing too.

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In the first sentence of the text, the underlined words mean that ‘American Dream’ was: