proles
Example Sentences
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This level of self-regard in a writer and thinker as justifiably exalted as Smith may explain why our nation is turning on reading: aristocracies breed resentment among the proles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
And so it's this remarkable moment, and Winston has thought over and over, if there's hope, it lies with the proles.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2021
In George Orwell’s “1984,” the proles are spared a life of constant surveillance, while higher-ranking members of society are exposed to Big Brother’s watchful eye.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2017
Peasants and proles could aspire to more than mere survival.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2016
The Party claimed, for example, that today forty per cent of adult proles were literate; before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been fifteen per cent.
From "1984" by George Orwell
