as in low
belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank
the writer's prole origins are evident in his gritty novels about life in the inner city
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Recent Examples of prole
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10 Oct. 2025
Noun
In Jodie Foster’s satire-cum-thriller, George Clooney plays a Jim Cramer-ish TV finance guru whose bullish promotion of one stock has led desperate prole Jack O’Connell to lose his life savings, leading to a hostage standoff in the TV studio.
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Bilge Ebiri,
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10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prole
Adjective
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Hien immediately fell to the ground and had to be helped off the pitch with what appeared to be a lower-body injury.
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Wenski’s remarks come as many in South Florida, the heart of the Haitian community in the country, are reeling after the justices reversed a lower court ruling upholding TPS protections for Haitians.
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On the one hand, the proletarian contributes every bit of on-the-clock activity to the value of the resulting commodity.
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The song, now considered a protest anthem, is about a social revolution in which French proletarians stand against the ruling class — in this case, an oppressive monarchy.
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But the earlier dolls were crude, lumpen things, a cross between a beanbag and a sculpted potato.
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Yet Empire Falls translates into a lumpen, stodgy miniseries, despite a fine central performance from Harris as a divorced diner owner with deep roots in the town and a structure that allows the past to keep informing and enriching the present.
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He’s been called a thief, a benefactor, a commoner, a lord, a killer and a hero.
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Ultimately, Charles stripped his younger brother of all royal titles and privileges in October 2025, rendering him a commoner.
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This one is about a regular old guy, a hedge knight in the plebeian population of Westeros, just trying to get by in a world that isn't kind to the common and poor.
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Below that sits the pedestrian CLK 500 and plebeian CLK 350.
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Instead of following his gut like some unenlightened pleb, Patrick trusts his spleen and his spleen alone.
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But because these monsters have yet to develop any fungal armor, runners are susceptible to gunshots, knives, and any other weaponry that would take out your average pleb.
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In recent years, more and more students from lower-class families have been able to attend universities.
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Some Wordlers also play Competitive Wordle against friends, family, the Wordle Bot or even against me, your humble narrator.
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Oxygen transfer involves several interacting processes; many of them converge at the humble cork.
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“Prole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prole. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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