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Recent Examples of peasantry
In contrast, the Aramaic speaking peasantry were left to their own devices.
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2012
Like so many Ukrainian films of the 1960s, Stone Cross functions as a broader allegory for the destruction of the Ukrainian peasantry from the late 19th century until the Holodomor of 1932–33, when Stalin engineered a massive famine that killed millions of Ukrainians.
—Joshua First, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
Quite often, and especially today, language change does not occur from on high (in fact, the top-down imposition of standard national languages on the masses is more a recent feature of post-Enlightenment nationalism; Latin spread in the Roman Empire over centuries among the western peasantry).
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2010
Some of the Khasi were probably assimilated into the post-Munda (Indo-European or Dravidian speaking) peasantry.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2011
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2012
Like so many Ukrainian films of the 1960s, Stone Cross functions as a broader allegory for the destruction of the Ukrainian peasantry from the late 19th century until the Holodomor of 1932–33, when Stalin engineered a massive famine that killed millions of Ukrainians.
—Joshua First, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
Quite often, and especially today, language change does not occur from on high (in fact, the top-down imposition of standard national languages on the masses is more a recent feature of post-Enlightenment nationalism; Latin spread in the Roman Empire over centuries among the western peasantry).
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2010
Some of the Khasi were probably assimilated into the post-Munda (Indo-European or Dravidian speaking) peasantry.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2011
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasantry
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Inspired by Karl Marx, the Bolsheviks dreamed of a world communist revolution and held special expectations for Germany, Marx’s homeland, and for its proletariat.Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2023
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The first scenario does much more to reduce poverty, demonstrating the importance of permanently expanding access to unemployment insurance to workers with nontraditional jobs—part-timers, freelancers, and other members of the gig economy’s swelling proletariat.Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
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Further, this much control over the autonomy of an athlete’s rights to their own NIL rights combined with a financial obligation could also trigger scrutiny under the 13th Amendment, which, in addition to abolishing slavery, placed prohibitions on peonage (i.e., working against your will).Joe Sabin, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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Convict leasing, also called peonage, juxtaposed the infrastructure of the Old English debtor’s prison with the barbarism of chattel slavery to bolster American capitalism.Phillip Vance Smith, JSTOR Daily, 1 Feb. 2024
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Two millionaires stay millionaires by asking plebs to fund their children.Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2024
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The intention to illuminate the political machinations of the Capitol and the importance of the games in maintaining the divide between the ruling class and the powerless plebs yields little beyond turgid gloom.David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
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Even before the Atlantic City Boardwalk became the iconic scene of the Roaring ‘20s New Jersey bourgeoisie, the Jersey Shore was already increasingly a vacation spot for the wealthy.Andrew DePietro, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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Then a hotelier hung Nymphs and Satyr in a public bar, shaking up NYC's bourgeoisie.JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
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Faced with the union’s demand of 40%, Boeing offered 25% (an amount originally accepted by IAM leadership) which was turned down almost unanimously by rank and file.Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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But some rank and file auto workers also held a pro-Trump rally.ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Peasantry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peasantry. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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