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subaltern

noun as in secondary person

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It’s an island nation that was dominated for centuries by a neighboring superpower, and now serves as privileged subaltern to another one.

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She had enrolled as an honorary subaltern in early 1945, when she was 18.

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He has done so especially among sections of the white middle-class, who have suffered the erosion of their buying power and watched as the black community refused to return to its historical subaltern position.

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She is shown as a young ATS second subaltern during the second world war in an image posted by the British Army.

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His life is a series of subaltern tasks.

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