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proles

NOUN
working class
Synonyms
WEAK
blue-collar workers common laborers factory laborers grassroots laboring class plebeians proletariat rank and file the other half unskilled laborers wage earners wage slaves workers workfolk working people working stiffs workpeople

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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

All of the winners, and some of the losers, cycle through – mingling with the proles as much as they have to.

From The Guardian • Feb. 29, 2016

But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire.

From "1984" by George Orwell