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

Ylfa’s sauce enthusiasm addresses class disparity, the suppression of the proletariat, egomania and how food can unite people and tear them apart.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025

The growth of the proletariat disrupted the Roman political system and invited large-scale corruption.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

All of them are officials of the church....Now go there and preach a red hot sermon about the proletariat.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson