plutocracy

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Recent Examples of plutocracy The turn toward market liberalization around 1980 unleashed a second wave of plutocracy. Daniel Waldenstrom, Foreign Affairs, 19 May 2025 American democracy has been hijacked by a one-man plutocracy. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025 Where their influence prevailed, the result was sometimes called plutocracy, or the rule of the rich. 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 See All Example Sentences for plutocracy
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The former played the role of cynosure for the neophytes of the new high society, the latter remaining the bastion of genteel estates and social exclusivity.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Neuroscience also reveals how collective memory and leadership dynamics can steer a society toward increasing aggression or maintaining peace.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Neither have confirmed the collaboration at the time of going to print, but fans are already buzzing about the pairing of K-pop royalty and British pop aristocracy.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The entire film plays out over one long party at an English estate, where the stuffy, traditional English aristocracy collide with Hedda’s bohemian artist friends.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • More recently, women started going to college at higher rates than men, the gender pay gap started to close, women started having children later, LGTBQ rights made strides and body positivity pressed companies to diversify depictions of beautiful people.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • He’s drawn to this material not by the weight of its ethical conundrums but by the chance to watch beautiful people attempt, or pretend, to hash those conundrums out.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Rondini sandals, bags, and accessories collected by the international jet set can now be shipped internationally.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025
  • 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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