populace
Example Sentences
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Like so many 21st-century trends, what feels good for us as individuals is eroding us as a populace.
Plato saw it as an inevitable consequence of democracy, when a quest for freedom leads to excess and the populace demands a strongman.
From Salon
Faber is positive about one thing: the ability of capitalism to lift the world’s populace out of poverty.
From MarketWatch
If Kazin had any say, food security for the populace would be the priority.
From MarketWatch
It emerges, historically, when a sufficient mass of the populace has become terrified into unreason and ceded control into the hands of the evil but assured.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
