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

Labour unions were central to the Communist Party's proletariat beginnings but play only a marginal role in modern authoritarian China.

From Reuters • Jun. 14, 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