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Recent Examples of peasantry
Five centuries later, the European peasantry has once again been goaded to fury.
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Tilak Doshi, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
It’s centered around Tartu University, founded by Swedes in 1632, a time before the Russian occupation when the quality of life for Estonian peasantry declined rapidly.
—Lisa Lucas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
In contrast, the Aramaic speaking peasantry were left to their own devices.
—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
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Tilak Doshi, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
It’s centered around Tartu University, founded by Swedes in 1632, a time before the Russian occupation when the quality of life for Estonian peasantry declined rapidly.
—Lisa Lucas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
In contrast, the Aramaic speaking peasantry were left to their own devices.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasantry
Noun
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As is the case with the aesthetics of people, exquisite lines can be found on patrician and proletariat cars alike.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
21 Feb. 2025
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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 Black community’s relationship with growing food is colored by exploitive practices, from slavery to sharecropping, tenant farming and peonage, or debt servitude.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Detroit Free Press,
27 Nov. 2024
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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
Noun
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Down, Gramercy Park reportedly refused to open its doors to the plebs, breaking with tradition.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
25 Dec. 2024
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Two millionaires stay millionaires by asking plebs to fund their children.—
Minyvonne Burke,
NBC News,
27 Jan. 2024
Noun
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According to theory, words referred not to the world they were tasked with representing but only to other words in a ruthless system where meaning was elusive, reality an illusion and the self a romantic fiction perpetrated by the capitalist bourgeoisie.—
Emily Eakin,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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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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Berkeley is struggling to retain city workers, both rank and file and key top administrators.—
East Bay Times editorial,
The Mercury News,
31 Oct. 2024
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Luna said Friday that the agreement Democrats initially made with Johnson's team came about in a closed-door meeting that did not include rank and file Republicans.—
Savannah Kuchar,
USA TODAY,
21 Dec. 2024
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“Peasantry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peasantry. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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