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
  • Safer and more efficient batteries For society, such advances mean safer and more efficient batteries that accelerate the transition to clean energy.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Any novel about a train is a study of society and its ineradicable divisions.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Some moved to England in order to receive an education or marry into the aristocracy; others journeyed to India, Macau, or Rome.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • All Creatures Great and Small What Downton Abbey did for British aristocracy, All Creatures Great and Small does for English veterinary practices.
    Tiffany Kelly, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The edifice may at first appear to have realized the modernist dream of injecting avant-garde art into everyday life, but its architects’ intention that the building serve only the glitterati of its day evacuated this modernist aesthetic of the socialist ideals typically underpinning it.
    Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • This was the night that produced the now-legendary Paris Hilton glitterati shot—the one that would live on in endless best party dresses lists.
    Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 29 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Even the most incredulous of us listened to him describe the visions of fleeting stars that were enchanting enough to swoon the most beautiful people on this poor Earth.
    Big Think, Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
  • But the streets will be absolutely flooded with beautiful people on Saturday and from all different faith traditions as well.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 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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“Plutocracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plutocracy. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.

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