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Recent Examples of peasantry
For their part, the European peasantry grew wary of the Christian leaders who seemed to have abandoned them.
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Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
By the late third century, most emperors and many of their top officials rose from the rural peasantry through the ranks of the army.
—Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
In the Middle Ages, poor, ill-resourced regions such as the Alpine canton of Schwyz could press their peasantry into mercenary armies and market coercion as a service.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
But the network structures of Colonial America and ancien régime France were profoundly different (for example, the former lacked a large, illiterate peasantry).
—Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
By the late third century, most emperors and many of their top officials rose from the rural peasantry through the ranks of the army.
—Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
In the Middle Ages, poor, ill-resourced regions such as the Alpine canton of Schwyz could press their peasantry into mercenary armies and market coercion as a service.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
But the network structures of Colonial America and ancien régime France were profoundly different (for example, the former lacked a large, illiterate peasantry).
—Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasantry
Noun
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Severin, on the other hand, represents the revolutionary proletariat.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
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Lower than proletariat workers, the lumpenproletariat includes the indigent and the unemployable, those cast out of the workforce with no recourse, or those who can’t enter it in the first place, such as young workers in times of economic depression.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Roughly 12% were of African descent — newly unshackled, technically free and already being legally recaptured under other names: peonage, vagrancy laws, convict leasing.—
Jack Hill,
Baltimore Sun,
17 May 2025
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Ryan Coogler didn’t want to hide anymore The film conveys two forms of peonage prominent in the 1930s South—labor arrangements not far removed from slavery.—
Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2025
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Early American bohemianism is often associated with the literature of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Jack London, and Henry Miller, as well as a host of artists and intellectuals who embraced social nonconformity through a rejection of mainstream bourgeoisie values.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Oct. 2025
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Its leaders sanctioned the mass appropriation of lands from the nobility and their distribution to smaller farmers and the urban bourgeoisie.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Those unions’ rank and file, increasingly, see Democrats as cultural elitists who look down on them and want to replace their jobs.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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There is some sense that rumblings are growing among the congressional rank and file, though nothing has surfaced yet that seems promising.—
David Lightman,
Sacbee.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Peasantry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peasantry. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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