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Recent Examples of commoner
This idea is particularly demonstrated through Ramza’s relationship with his best friend, a commoner named Delita.
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Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
The mysterious spirit animal messengers that Ji-noo sends, a tiger and a magpie who represent the nobles and commoners of many Korean folk tales, needed to be otherworldly without being fully demonic.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Watch The Lost Daughter on Netflix The King Prince Hal (Timothée Chalamet), the heir to the English throne, wants nothing to do with royal life and is living among commoners when his tyrannical father dies.
—Alex Gurley, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The Magna Carta was first issued by King John of England in 1215 and declared that all people, royalty and commoners, had personal rights.
—Scott Simon, NPR, 17 May 2025
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Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
The mysterious spirit animal messengers that Ji-noo sends, a tiger and a magpie who represent the nobles and commoners of many Korean folk tales, needed to be otherworldly without being fully demonic.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Watch The Lost Daughter on Netflix The King Prince Hal (Timothée Chalamet), the heir to the English throne, wants nothing to do with royal life and is living among commoners when his tyrannical father dies.
—Alex Gurley, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The Magna Carta was first issued by King John of England in 1215 and declared that all people, royalty and commoners, had personal rights.
—Scott Simon, NPR, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commoner
Noun
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So much for plebeians like myself, who tended to plants at a local nursery for minimum wage at 17.—
Chris Branch,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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Its practical function: No one, neither courtier nor plebeian, could stand close to the queen, conspicuous in her splendid isolation.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Instead of following his gut like some unenlightened pleb, Patrick trusts his spleen and his spleen alone.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
13 Aug. 2025
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But because these monsters have yet to develop any fungal armor, runners are susceptible to gunshots, knives, and any other weaponry that would take out your average pleb.—
Lauren Puckett-Pope,
ELLE,
20 Jan. 2023
Noun
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On the one hand, the proletarian contributes every bit of on-the-clock activity to the value of the resulting commodity.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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The song, now considered a protest anthem, is about a social revolution in which French proletarians stand against the ruling class — in this case, an oppressive monarchy.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
24 Feb. 2025
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In Jodie Foster’s satire-cum-thriller, George Clooney plays a Jim Cramer-ish TV finance guru whose bullish promotion of one stock has led desperate prole Jack O’Connell to lose his life savings, leading to a hostage standoff in the TV studio.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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There is no excusing his remarks about Childress, whose everyman, never-back-down persona is something with which many fans identify.—
Jordan Bianchi,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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The controversial 1974 cult classic Death Wish was a milestone film in the vigilante justice genre that lives on everywhere today, from Batman films to John Wick, feeding audiences’ insatiable appetite for the everyman pushed to the brink who finally takes matters into his own hands.—
Paul Fitzgerald,
Rolling Stone,
13 Nov. 2025
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“Commoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commoner. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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