plebeian
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All the enlightened reformers in Europe were desperately trying to eliminate the peasant peculiarities and plebeian dialects that divided the peoples of their nations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
So as a mere plebeian author interviewing Dan Brown for the first time, I needed to know: After you’ve sold 200 million books, does it get any easier?
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025
The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were biplane and plebeian.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2023
There were the paeans from plebeian basketball fans and politicians alike, almost as if public genuflection to a sports idol were American dogma.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2020
This is what we can afford; but also there’s an unspoken rule that the food has to be unwaveringly plebeian.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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