plebians

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Ever since September 2009, Dick Vitale has been talking screaming to us plebians on all sorts of matters through Twitter, oftentimes updating us on basketball tidbits that we all already knew.

From Golf Digest • Jan. 8, 2020

As alluded to in the title, Adams' punt return from August 31 was so powerful and ridiculous that the rest of us plebians are only catching up to it now.

From Golf Digest • Sep. 11, 2019

Patrician status was inherited, and plebians made up the rest of society.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2016

On their first attempt to get in, Mr. Benitez and Mr. Carrasco waited in line with the plebians.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2011

Standing-room for twenty thousand plebians was actually given free, and the other eighty thousand people who could be accommodated paid little enough.

From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Graham, Stephen