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Recent Examples of peasantry
For their part, the European peasantry grew wary of the Christian leaders who seemed to have abandoned them.
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Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
By the late third century, most emperors and many of their top officials rose from the rural peasantry through the ranks of the army.
—Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
In the Middle Ages, poor, ill-resourced regions such as the Alpine canton of Schwyz could press their peasantry into mercenary armies and market coercion as a service.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
But the network structures of Colonial America and ancien régime France were profoundly different (for example, the former lacked a large, illiterate peasantry).
—Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
By the late third century, most emperors and many of their top officials rose from the rural peasantry through the ranks of the army.
—Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
In the Middle Ages, poor, ill-resourced regions such as the Alpine canton of Schwyz could press their peasantry into mercenary armies and market coercion as a service.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
But the network structures of Colonial America and ancien régime France were profoundly different (for example, the former lacked a large, illiterate peasantry).
—Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasantry
Noun
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All that loot pumped out of the Armenian proletariat, says the gaur, and for what.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Severin, on the other hand, represents the revolutionary proletariat.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Roughly 12% were of African descent — newly unshackled, technically free and already being legally recaptured under other names: peonage, vagrancy laws, convict leasing.—
Jack Hill,
Baltimore Sun,
17 May 2025
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Ryan Coogler didn’t want to hide anymore The film conveys two forms of peonage prominent in the 1930s South—labor arrangements not far removed from slavery.—
Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2025
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Scheidt’s family were members of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie (a distant cousin, Albert Ballin, was general director of what became the world’s largest steamship line).—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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The flashbacks to Emma’s adolescence, which Borgli films with some curiosity, are far more engaging than the film’s depictions of the chatty Boston bourgeoisie, which exude self-satisfied certainty.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
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Doug Coates, acting president of the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City, the union representing LAFD rank and file, declined to comment.—
Alene Tchekmedyian,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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The notion that there is widespread fraud in the system is far more prevalent among the Republican rank and file, more so than others.—
Anthony Salvanto,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Peasantry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peasantry. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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