proletariat
Example Sentences
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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.
It’s not a proletariat hostel, but it’s in the right neighborhood.
From Salon
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
“I consider myself politically proletariat,” he told The New York Times in 2015.
From New York Times
What distinguishes “A Slight Ache” from “The Room,” The Birthday Party” and “The Dumb Waiter” — three plays from the same early period — is that it’s the bourgeoisie, not the proletariat, under mounting inexplicable pressure.
From Los Angeles Times
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