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Recent Examples of commoner
The 1947 Imperial House Law only allows male-line succession and forces female royals who marry commoners to lose their royal status.
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Arkansas Online, 2 Dec. 2025
After the sudden death of King Uther plunges Britain into instability, Merlin places Uther’s hidden son Arthur—raised as a commoner—on the throne.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Even the idealistic Elphaba seems to agree that commoners can’t handle the truth, recognizing that exploiting her unjustly evil reputation can do some good.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Nov. 2025
This idea is particularly demonstrated through Ramza’s relationship with his best friend, a commoner named Delita.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 2 Dec. 2025
After the sudden death of King Uther plunges Britain into instability, Merlin places Uther’s hidden son Arthur—raised as a commoner—on the throne.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Even the idealistic Elphaba seems to agree that commoners can’t handle the truth, recognizing that exploiting her unjustly evil reputation can do some good.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Nov. 2025
This idea is particularly demonstrated through Ramza’s relationship with his best friend, a commoner named Delita.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 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
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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
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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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The 50th anniversary of his Game 7 heroics was marked in 2010 by the unveiling — on Bill Mazeroski Way — of a 14-foot, 2,000-pound statue of one of Pittsburgh’s greatest everymen, rounding the bases, on top of the world.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Feb. 2026
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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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“Commoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commoner. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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