proles

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This level of self-regard in a writer and thinker as justifiably exalted as Smith may explain why our nation is turning on reading: aristocracies breed resentment among the proles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

At that time he is merely the chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission, and his antagonists are not yet sympathetic proles but out-of-touch gentry.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022

And so it's this remarkable moment, and Winston has thought over and over, if there's hope, it lies with the proles.

From Salon • Nov. 3, 2021

"The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention."

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2013

The Party claimed, for example, that today forty per cent of adult proles were literate; before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been fifteen per cent.

From "1984" by George Orwell