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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

It’s not a proletariat hostel, but it’s in the right neighborhood.

From Salon Jul. 12, 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

We proletariats have grown up, but have neither appropriated any wisdom, nor brought light into life.

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein

We proletariats, plain and poor people, coming from the backyard of life, we must study and study, in order to come to the front, ahead of everybody.

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein

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

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

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




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