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proletariat

[proh-li-tair-ee-uht] / ˌproʊ lɪˈtɛər i ət /


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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

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

Labour unions were central to the Communist Party's proletariat beginnings but play only a marginal role in modern authoritarian China.

From Reuters Jun. 14, 2023

And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the Party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Once in power, Marius reformed the entrance requirements for the army to open it to proletariats, extending them the opportunity for war gains and even land for their service.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

Not proletariats, petitioners, president's, noses, bits of fluff.

From Touch and Go by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

The proletariats, headed by the students, had sacked the arsenal, the troops having made but slight resistance.

From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)

Snouck Hugronje plays you forget all about self-determination, syndicalism, guild-control, proletariats, sunspots and even Mr. SMILLIE.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 by Various

It is in this sense that the proletariats of all countries must furnish, even in the course of this war, a Socialist effort for peace.

From The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife by Carpenter, Edward




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