plebeian
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Capacious Rolls-Royces and Bentleys rub bumpers with plebeian Honda Civics and Fiats, all seeking streetside spaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
But the filmmakers have given him an all-access pass, from plebeian alleyways to marbled halls of power, and he is forever walking in unannounced on people who could literally have his head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
Wearing the jacket seemingly transforms you from a plebeian to a shapeless, off-duty celebrity ready for a paparazzi shot.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
There were the paeans from plebeian basketball fans and politicians alike, almost as if public genuflection to a sports idol were American dogma.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2020
And no one need fear that the numbers are being cooked either, since they appear in the prestigious Wall Street Journal, as well as in more plebeian papers.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Gladiatorial culture developed with the rise of what were known as games, or those events put on by elite Romans for plebeians and others socially beneath them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
But there are good deals for us plebeians if you know where to look.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
While the common people of ancient Rome were called plebeians, which word was used for a member of the Roman aristocracy?
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2023
Roman society was divided into two classes or orders, patricians and plebeians.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The patricians had hitherto grasped the whole of the conquered soil, though they could not do so with clean hands; and Spurius Cassius proposed that the plebeians should have a share of it.
From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket
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