the proletariat
Example Sentences
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Ylfa’s sauce enthusiasm addresses class disparity, the suppression of the proletariat, egomania and how food can unite people and tear them apart.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025
It’s an inverse work song, one that juxtaposes hard toil with a flow that cannot be interrupted by the frustrations of the proletariat.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023
In his view, employers paid wages to their workers, also known as the proletariat, that were far less than their labor was worth.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Therefore, they sought to prepare the proletariat for its “historic mission” of achieving a socialist society, Hudson said: “It was decided that chess would be one of the ways to do this.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2022
After spending so much time living with the proletariat in the hospital where he worked, he had lost his reason.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
