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the masses

NOUN
commonality
Synonyms
STRONG
common commonalty commoner pleb plebeian populace public
WEAK
hoi polloi third estate
NOUN
commonalty
Synonyms
STRONG
common commonality commoner pleb plebeian populace public
WEAK
hoi polloi third estate
NOUN
grassroots
Synonyms
WEAK
Middle America common people hoi polloi laboring class middle class proletariat rank and file wage-earners working class working people
NOUN
hoi polloi
Synonyms
WEAK
Middle America common people commonality commoners great unwashed huddled masses infrastructure masses multitude plebians proletariat rabble rank and file riffraff the common people the herd the many the multitude the proletariat the working class vulgus

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Wall Street brings sophisticated quant trading to the masses.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

Jerald “Coop” Cooper is an artist and founder of Hood Century, a media agency researching, archiving and educating the masses on Black folks lived experience with the city, via architecture, design and popular culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

It was the stock ticker’s 1869 introduction that brought trading, legal and illicit, to the masses.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

West didn’t just embody feminist fat acceptance; she made it cool and brought it to the masses.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

I showed up, I did the work, I dealt with the dependable, unrelenting microaggressions from the masses that influenced the emotional weather patterns of my day.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi