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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

All of them are officials of the church....Now go there and preach a red hot sermon about the proletariat.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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 D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Always was; but, since he’s joined the proletariats in America, he’s stark, staring mad.

From The Later Life by Louis Couperus

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 Edward Carpenter

With that, Moscow ceased to inspire the grand international solidarity of proletariats.

From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Stephen Graham


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