How to Use leisured in a Sentence
leisured
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This is no leisured elite, but the first hyperindustrious one.
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Sarah Leonard,
The New Republic,
2019-09-05
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On this account, the first cities were not so much a great leap forward for humanity as a new mode of exploitation that enabled the world’s first leisured ruling class to live on the sweat of the world’s first peasant-serfs.
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Jedediah Purdy,
New Republic,
2017-11-01
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Deterrence is a hard sell for an affluent and leisured society convinced that its supposed success at evolving and improving human nature has made the tough lessons of the past seem prosaic and irrelevant.
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Victor Davis Hanson,
National Review,
2017-10-03
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