proletariat
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Even as employers complain about a dearth of qualified workers, a growing college-educated proletariat can’t find jobs they want to work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
Perhaps I had joined the ranks of the global internet proletariat, hammering clicks on the abstracted factory floor of the future?
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025
It’s not a proletariat hostel, but it’s in the right neighborhood.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
"The Filipino proletariat and toiling people grieve the death of their teacher and guiding light," the party said in a statement on its website.
From Reuters ● Dec. 17, 2022
And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the Party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Once in power, Marius reformed the entrance requirements for the army to open it to proletariats, extending them the opportunity for war gains and even land for their service.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
It is in this sense that the proletariats of all countries must furnish, even in the course of this war, a Socialist effort for peace.
From The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife by Edward Carpenter
We proletariats have grown up, but have neither appropriated any wisdom, nor brought light into life.
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein
Not proletariats, petitioners, president's, noses, bits of fluff.
From Touch and Go by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
From proletariats in their own persons they have become men of substance and property.
From About Ireland by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
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