as in carriage trade
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Recent Examples of plutocracy
In other words, has America finally become a full-fledged plutocracy, controlled by people of great wealth and income?
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
Why is turning American democracy into a plutocracy so troubling?
—Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024
Mike Heller Walnut Creek American plutocracy has taken over
Can Joe Biden get away with biting the hand that feeds him?
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
The key political takeaway is that the White House is determined to frame the upcoming contest between Biden and Donald Trump as a choice between a Democrat fighting for the American middle class and a Republican stooge for the plutocracy.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
See All Example Sentences for plutocracy
Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
Why is turning American democracy into a plutocracy so troubling?
—Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024
Mike Heller Walnut Creek American plutocracy has taken over
Can Joe Biden get away with biting the hand that feeds him?
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
The key political takeaway is that the White House is determined to frame the upcoming contest between Biden and Donald Trump as a choice between a Democrat fighting for the American middle class and a Republican stooge for the plutocracy.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plutocracy
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Once the sale of the North Avenue Market complex was official a few weeks ago, a new arts partnership began envisioning a future for this 1928 landmark where Baltimore’s carriage trade once did their food shopping.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Mar. 2024
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Bernheimer’s never sought the carriage trade.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
4 June 2022
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To live in any society at any time—whether a pre-industrial tribe or a highly urbanized cohort of knowledge workers—is to feel constrained by forces beyond one’s control and for alternatives to seem impossible.—
Alice Gregory,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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What’s happening in society where a boy stabs a girl to death?—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
17 Mar. 2025
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French Aristocracy And Land (18th Century) Before the French Revolution, most agricultural land was owned by the aristocracy.—
Vitaliy Goncharuk,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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The fabric, once a symbol of elite aristocracy, was found in a lead coffin, along with other exceptional artifacts.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
14 Feb. 2025
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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Mahomes got married on March 12, 2022 Comments Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Mahomes jet set to paradise for their nuptials three years ago.—
Ariana Quihuiz,
People.com,
12 Mar. 2025
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As the preferred winter hideaway for the world’s jet set and glitterati, Gstaad Palace offers guests the ultimate in Alpine-luxury and Swiss hospitality.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Plutocracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plutocracy. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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