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Recent Examples of plutocracy
Many billionaires have additionally rigged economic policies in their favor by lobbying and in some cases, assuming government positions, known as a plutocracy, Rebekka Ayres argues in an op-ed for Teen Vogue.
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Devika Rao, The Week, 26 Nov. 2022
One suspects that his problem with plutocracy isn’t its existence, but that membership in it didn’t save him when a fall guy was needed.
—Laura Kipnis, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
One school of progressive thought says that America has devolved (once again, perhaps) into a plutocracy.
—Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 11 July 2022
Social equity pits people with very little wealth and clout against the plutocracy that runs the world, with billions of dollars at stake.
—Amanda Chicago Lewis, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
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Devika Rao, The Week, 26 Nov. 2022
One suspects that his problem with plutocracy isn’t its existence, but that membership in it didn’t save him when a fall guy was needed.
—Laura Kipnis, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
One school of progressive thought says that America has devolved (once again, perhaps) into a plutocracy.
—Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 11 July 2022
Social equity pits people with very little wealth and clout against the plutocracy that runs the world, with billions of dollars at stake.
—Amanda Chicago Lewis, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
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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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Even as a single, childless woman, which society calls failure, my life always felt charmed, so charmed that asking God for more felt greedy.Essence, Essence, 17 Dec. 2024
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The importance of age as a powerful marker of authority — a principle that derives from the influence of Confucianism in Korean society — is vividly on display as junior officers and rank-and-file soldiers are caught, sometimes tragically, between these concepts and their duty to the nation.Richard Kuipers, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
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Two worlds, one of a dwindling aristocracy, and the other of racing capitalism converge and throw up a whirlwind of clashing ambitions, steamy romance, chic couture and fashion-forward Instagrammable moments.Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
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When the Norman Conquest in 1066 installed a French feudal aristocracy in the British Isles, the invaders brought with them a love of winemaking.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2024
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The club, which features North America’s first Endless Surf wave basin, is aimed at the millennial jet set and their families, who are more focused on wellness and adventure than sitting idly by the pool, cocktail in hand.Brooke Seipel, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
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Her muses, her husbands, her lovers–Lempicka was bisexual–the European and American jet set.Chadd Scott, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Plutocracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plutocracy. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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