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huddled masses

NOUN

hoi polloi

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WEAK

Middle America common people commonality commoners great unwashed infrastructure masses multitude plebians proletariat rabble rank and file riffraff the common people the herd the many the masses the multitude the proletariat the working class vulgus

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Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2023

But surely many say it's far better to offer a céad míle fáilte than to see your "huddled masses" depart for foreign lands.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2023

In “Sweeney Todd,” Steven Hoggett set the huddled masses of Victorian London lurching and retching about the stage.

From New York Times • May 10, 2023

Things like: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022

“She was a writer and a poet. She wrote a poem that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty that says, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’”

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

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