peasant

They impacted the lives of more than 100 million people through trade unions, peasant organisations, student wings and disciplined cadre networks.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

Back then, China was a secretive and still largely peasant society.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

“It’s like reading an old English novel when you’re the peasant, and you’re not recognized.”

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026

In long, meandering speeches laced with peasant folklore, Museveni often appeals for more time, likening himself to a farmer leaving a plantation just as it starts bearing fruit.

From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026

Their faces are mirrors of each other, but their bodies are opposites—one tall and skinny and the other short and chunky—as if Princess ruled their mother’s womb and Primadonna was an underfed peasant.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi

A teenager draws his slingshot, while fighters holding prayer beads take control of a Soviet tank, and peasants clutching pitchforks face Soviet soldiers.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

The late French queen is best known for her supposedly callous, clueless, privileged suggestion that if the peasants couldn’t get enough bread, they should eat cake instead.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026

This was distinct from Europe where aristocrats lived off inherited wealth, only peasants labored manually and one’s place in society was fixed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

I went there, I learned to love the peasants, the bombing shocked my psyche and soul to the core, and I responded — not because I was hopeful or hopeless, but because I was alive.”

From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2024

“I can’t imagine fighting peasants in Vietnam,” one student said to him, “given everything I have learned about moral behavior over my lifetime.”

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge