egalitarian
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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
Jefferson was also “overwhelmed by the new paper-money business culture sweeping through the country and never appreciated how much his democratic and egalitarian principles had contributed to its rise.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
There’s also an egalitarian quality to soccer that other sports lack.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
There is something inherently egalitarian and liberating about the new inter-related worlds of the book and of the fact.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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By categorizing people as lucky or unlucky, she argued, these egalitarians set up a moralizing hierarchy.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
Thus, while secularizing leaders were generally on the left and saw themselves as egalitarians, they were often viewed by the traditionalist, religious masses as elitists.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2015
Should such a movement take back feminism — or, as the new egalitarians suggest, give up on the label altogether because of its inherent connotations of advocating for women only?
From Time ● Jul. 24, 2014
No less hopeful are the egalitarians who believe the internet, and social media in particular, have flattened the old hierarchies that put purveyors of information at the top of the pyramid and consumers down below.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2011
There were even a few egalitarians who claimed for all classes a democratic régime.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
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