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proletariat

[proh-li-tair-ee-uht] / ˌproʊ lɪˈtɛər i ət /


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“If they destroy the Lakers, guys with Kobe back tattoos are going to start the proletariat revolution. I think that the closest we’re getting to class consciousness is fast food and sports teams.”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Even as employers complain about a dearth of qualified workers, a growing college-educated proletariat can’t find jobs they want to work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025

Perhaps I had joined the ranks of the global internet proletariat, hammering clicks on the abstracted factory floor of the future?

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025

Labour unions were central to the Communist Party's proletariat beginnings but play only a marginal role in modern authoritarian China.

From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2023

After spending so much time living with the proletariat in the hospital where he worked, he had lost his reason.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

Once in power, Marius reformed the entrance requirements for the army to open it to proletariats, extending them the opportunity for war gains and even land for their service.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

It is in this sense that the proletariats of all countries must furnish, even in the course of this war, a Socialist effort for peace.

From The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife by Edward Carpenter

Not proletariats, petitioners, president's, noses, bits of fluff.

From Touch and Go by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

He will endure when aristocracies crack and proletariats crumble.

From Huntingtower by John Buchan

Not lords nor proletariats nor bishops nor husbands nor co-respondents nor virgins nor adultresses nor uncles nor noses.

From Touch and Go by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence


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