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egalitarian

[ih-gal-i-tair-ee-uhn] / ɪˌgæl ɪˈtɛər i ən /


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During his reign, the Norwegian monarchy became more egalitarian and transparent with finances and health, Ole-Jørgen Schulsrud-Hansen, historian and TV2 royal correspondent, told the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The problem — and the beauty — of Social Security is that it was conceived as an egalitarian system.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

That means that the public must have egalitarian, accessible, and effective channels to influence the law and policy that interpret, reflect, and shape constitutional meaning.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

There’s also an egalitarian quality to soccer that other sports lack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

Those complex political units are much better able to mount a sustained war of conquest than is an egalitarian band of hunters.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

I can honestly say, having worked with him and getting to know him, he is one of the true egalitarians we have in this world.

From Salon ● May 9, 2025

By categorizing people as lucky or unlucky, she argued, these egalitarians set up a moralizing hierarchy.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018

Thus, while secularizing leaders were generally on the left and saw themselves as egalitarians, they were often viewed by the traditionalist, religious masses as elitists.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2015

People with different values … individualists compared to egalitarians, for example … draw different inferences from the same evidence.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2012

There were even a few egalitarians who claimed for all classes a democratic régime.

From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith




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