plutocracy

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Recent Examples of plutocracy 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 Welcome to American plutocracy. Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024 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 third season of HBO’s The Gilded Age—in which Jacobson plays Marian Brook, a doe-eyed newcomer to late-1800s Manhattan high society—premiered a few days prior.
    Luna Adler, Vogue, 1 July 2025
  • Civil society groups like the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa are calling for financial institutions to stop propping up corporate industrial agriculture, urging more public investment in agroecology instead.
    Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • A little biographical information: He was born in 1896 into the decaying Bourbon aristocracy.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Republican purists wanted a simple, technical training school that kept the costs low and, more importantly, kept the officer corps from evolving into an aristocracy.
    Ryan Shaw / Made by History, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Interestingly, this isn't to attract corporate clients or leisure travelers who want to upgrade from another part of the plane—the main aim is to attract the private jet set, who might be encouraged by ecological guilt and a desire to reduce the price tag of a private plane.
    Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Weighing in at nearly eight pounds, 11 ounces and featuring more than 100 unpublished images, Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection (Abrams, October 3) gives insight into the man who most shaped public understanding of how the postwar global jet set lived.
    Ken Miller, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2023

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