proletariat
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Even as employers complain about a dearth of qualified workers, a growing college-educated proletariat can’t find jobs they want to work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
Perhaps I had joined the ranks of the global internet proletariat, hammering clicks on the abstracted factory floor of the future?
From Slate • Aug. 4, 2025
It’s not a proletariat hostel, but it’s in the right neighborhood.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025
In power, Augustus provided land for veterans; secured jobs, free grain, and internal order for the urban proletariat; and offered wealthy Romans political and social advancement.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
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
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