proletariat

Example Sentences

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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

Others decided to sell their neglected farms and move their families to the expanding city of Rome, where they joined the growing ranks of the landless working class known as the proletariat.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

After spending so much time living with the proletariat in the hospital where he worked, he had lost his reason.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende