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as in democrat
one who advocates or practices social equality as egalitarians, they have always promoted policies for equal pay

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egalitarian

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adjective

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Now a fixture among the world’s largest tech firms, TSMC is rich enough to buy up the island’s best talent, drawing the ire of domestic critics for departing from Taiwan’s roots as an egalitarian society of small entrepreneurs along the way. Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2024 As Oz’s body count rose this season, so too did his insistence on positioning himself as an egalitarian icon. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024 In the years since the genocide, Rwanda has been touted as one of the most gender egalitarian countries in the world, with women making up 61.3% of the nation’s parliament today. Anneliese M. Schenk-Day, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2024 For example, many of them assert that an egalitarian split in parenting duties betweens moms and dads is often impossible, especially in the early days of a baby’s life. Emma Green, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for egalitarian 

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“Egalitarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/egalitarian. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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