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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

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

Fiscal support from the proletariat is great in politics; the last president to marshal it like Trump was Barack Obama.

From Seattle Times

“I consider myself politically proletariat,” he told The New York Times in 2015.

From New York Times