the common people
Example Sentences
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Although in her youth Catherine had imbibed Enlightenment views about the suffering of the common people, she was pragmatic enough to leave undisturbed the adamantine ways of the Russian countryside.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Mencken once said, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024
It is the common people who are suffering, she told me, in tears.
From BBC • May 6, 2024
While the common people of ancient Rome were called plebeians, which word was used for a member of the Roman aristocracy?
From Slate • Oct. 9, 2023
I shall conclude by saying only that a prince must have the friendship of the common people.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
