ragtag and bobtail

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Noun
  • The film and his character struck a chord with the Chinese public and Su saw his acting career blossom, going on to feature in several other films and television series.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
  • If the war truly has come to something like an end, how will the American public remember it?
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The movement of aid has increased through Israel’s border, but on a scale that Palestinians say falls short of the needs of a destitute populace.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • That’s where the actual populace is.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Lower than proletariat workers, the lumpenproletariat includes the indigent and the unemployable, those cast out of the workforce with no recourse, or those who can’t enter it in the first place, such as young workers in times of economic depression.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Somehow, this respectable foe of radicalism had organized the political realignment that broke up the Union, sustained the war that overthrew the South’s ruling class, and managed the struggle that emancipated its proletariat.
    Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Hundreds of companies are a disorganized rabble.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Steve heads up a reform school for volatile, cursing and rabble-rousing English boys, and his mental health is tested when a documentary crew shows up and word gets out the school is closing.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Ragtag and bobtail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ragtag%20and%20bobtail. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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