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Noun
Fundamentally, the proletarian forfeits not so much income as individual freedom and the sovereignty of his or her class. Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025 On the one hand, the proletarian contributes every bit of on-the-clock activity to the value of the resulting commodity. Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025 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. Raven Brunner, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025 Later in the novel, Hans’s mind turns to the brutality of occupation: If in the course of a five-day plan, 200,000 Berliners were removed by 50,000, these 50,000 proletarians would be fused into a collective by the shock of having killed. Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 June 2023 As a proudly class-conscious proletarian, Martin is naturally supportive of worker strikes. J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books, 22 Oct. 2020 Yet modern liberalism fits the modern world of high human capital better than the old rightish model of dim-witted peasants properly led by the aristocracy or the old leftish model of gormless proletarians properly led by The Party. The Economist, 8 Jan. 2020 Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman. Tristram Hunt, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019 The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. Erik Kirschbaum, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for proletarian
Adjective
  • Does the Trump administration really want to sink that low?
    Louis Balsamo, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2025
  • Al Bello/Getty Images Outside of the Giants' organization, expectations are low.
    Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • So much for plebeians like myself, who tended to plants at a local nursery for minimum wage at 17.
    Chris Branch, New York Times, 29 May 2025
  • Its practical function: No one, neither courtier nor plebeian, could stand close to the queen, conspicuous in her splendid isolation.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • 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.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Rhys spent decades, often isolated and paranoid, in lumpen houses and apartments in and out of London, before success arrived late.
    New York Times, New York Times, 20 June 2022
Noun
  • The ruling Liberal Democratic Party contends that opening royal status to commoners is just one step down a path that will ultimately lead to the abandonment of patrilineal legitimacy, ultimately discarding the sacred Y chromosome.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025
  • Isotopes in the bones of people buried there show that the city attracted people from far and wide, both commoners and elites.
    Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • These humble movie moments have now become the foundation of a trending dinner party format.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2025
  • The company remains true to the humble ethic of hard work and friendly customer service embodied by the founding family.
    Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Occasionally, like tonight, a chiseled pleb or square-jawed gym owner will pass muster, taking her to some exclusive club in Tribeca.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • 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.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 20 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Refrigerate unwashed, in plastic bag in refrigerator crisper drawer generally up to 7 days.
    Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Another option to assess training intensity is to look at how the unwashed masses train: to sift through reams of data looking for the patterns and variables that predict the best race performances.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Few on TV ever have portrayed the everyman better, though with his characteristic modesty, Wendt always directed plaudits to the show’s writers.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2025
  • Told backwards, the film ostensibly guides us through the painful and rewarding life of everyman Chuck Krantz (played by Tom Hiddleston, Jacob Tremblay, and Benjamin Pajak at different points in the film).
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 5 June 2025

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