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Recent Examples of plutocracy
Where their influence prevailed, the result was sometimes called plutocracy, or the rule of the rich.
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Ron Elving, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
While the United States has long been characterized by powerful corporate interests, this direct conversion of political authority into digital assets suggests movement toward a new form of plutocracy, where political power and wealth become increasingly indistinguishable.
—Alexandra Andhov, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Welcome to American plutocracy.
—Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024
The potent and volatile combination of high capital and popular radicalism, plutocracy and populism, characteristic of the American Right is a heritage of the global political and economic turmoil of the 1930s.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Sep. 2024
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Ron Elving, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
While the United States has long been characterized by powerful corporate interests, this direct conversion of political authority into digital assets suggests movement toward a new form of plutocracy, where political power and wealth become increasingly indistinguishable.
—Alexandra Andhov, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Welcome to American plutocracy.
—Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024
The potent and volatile combination of high capital and popular radicalism, plutocracy and populism, characteristic of the American Right is a heritage of the global political and economic turmoil of the 1930s.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plutocracy
Noun
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Both industrialized what had previously been cottage industries—in Ford’s case, the artisanal carriage trade; in Seabrook’s, market gardening.—
John Seabrook
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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Once the sale of the North Avenue Market complex was official a few weeks ago, a new arts partnership began envisioning a future for this 1928 landmark where Baltimore’s carriage trade once did their food shopping.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Mar. 2024
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Korean director Han Chang-lok’s Funky Freaky Freaks, a darkly comic ensemble about misfits on the fringes of Seoul society, received the special jury award.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Sep. 2025
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And those norms can change quickly, with much of society managing to adapt to a prolonged state of unfreedom.—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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Like Macbeth, King Henry met his tragic end when a civil war broke out and the aristocracy turned against him.—
Marlene L. Daut
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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That world is where Downton's Cora Crawley (Elizabeth McGovern) comes from, once a young American heiress who married into the British aristocracy to help preserve the Downton estate with her dowry.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Sep. 2025
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After all, this private members’ club on Jermyn Street in Mayfair, which first opened in 1969, has been graced by the glitterati, from celebrities to high society and royalty.—
Felicity Carter,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Amidst an atmosphere of refined revelry catering to glitterati and gearheads alike, this iteration at the Monterey Jet Center featured 275 automobiles and fourteen flying machines—from rotorcraft to private jets.—
Viju Mathew,
Robb Report,
14 Aug. 2025
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Hello, all you beautiful people!—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Aug. 2025
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Director Tarsem Singh lensed the original campaign in which Roberts arrives at a party chock-a-block with beautiful people.—
Jennifer Weil,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
Noun
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The Rondini sandals, bags, and accessories collected by the international jet set can now be shipped internationally.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
23 Aug. 2025
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Members of Manhattan’s jet set, including designer Zac Posen, editor Derek Blasberg, and stylist Elizabeth Saltzman, turned out in celebration.—
Ian Malone,
Vogue,
10 July 2025
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“Plutocracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plutocracy. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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