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The problem — and the beauty — of Social Security is that it was conceived as an egalitarian system.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

That means that the public must have egalitarian, accessible, and effective channels to influence the law and policy that interpret, reflect, and shape constitutional meaning.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

There’s also an egalitarian quality to soccer that other sports lack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

Unlike their Arab Sunni neighbors, Omanis belong to the Ibadite sect, an early secession from mainstream Islam known for its moderate and egalitarian tendencies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Hunter-gatherer societies tend to be relatively egalitarian, to lack full-time bureaucrats and hereditary chiefs, and to have small-scale political organization at the level of the band or tribe.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

But Masur’s monumental account leaves no doubt that a generation of 19th-century racial egalitarians altered history.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2021

By categorizing people as lucky or unlucky, she argued, these egalitarians set up a moralizing hierarchy.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018

Lancashire, Turner tells us, was already over-run with itinerant preachers and tiny sects broken from Methodism, but Young and his companions were more eloquent egalitarians, offering economic as well as spiritual solutions to proletarian misery.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2012

Many egalitarians go even father to say that Jesus subverted his day’s gender norms by asking Mary and Martha to sit as his feet during teachings, a spot usually only reserved for male students.

From Time ● Aug. 21, 2011

There were even a few egalitarians who claimed for all classes a democratic régime.

From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith