commoner

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Recent Examples of commoner Instead, similar to Yasmin, he’s almost constantly befuddled that all his rank and access and riches can’t make the commoners like him. Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2024 But there was a lot in Franklin's path from Boston commoner to Enlightenment celebrity to feel good about, and there's a twinkle in his eye on every page. The Week Us, theweek, 17 Sep. 2024 The former upper-middle-class commoner, who married into the British royal family in 2011, has made sparing public appearances and provided a few progress reports since revealing her diagnosis. Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024 This, in turn, gave commoners leverage to demand from their rulers increased political participation, equality before the law, and better provision of public goods. Andreas Wimmer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019 See all Example Sentences for commoner 
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Noun
  • But an unpleasant incident with a public transit plebeian leads Leighton to ponder the direction of her life.
    Rachel Seo, Variety, 2 Dec. 2024
  • May 31 is International Flight Attendant Day, but like us plebeians, most flight attendants circle Black Friday on their calendars first.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Occasionally, like tonight, a chiseled pleb or square-jawed gym owner will pass muster, taking her to some exclusive club in Tribeca.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2021
  • But because these monsters have yet to develop any fungal armor, runners are susceptible to gunshots, knives, and any other weaponry that would take out your average pleb.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 20 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • Later in the novel, Hans’s mind turns to the brutality of occupation: If in the course of a five-day plan, 200,000 Berliners were removed by 50,000, these 50,000 proletarians would be fused into a collective by the shock of having killed.
    Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
  • As a proudly class-conscious proletarian, Martin is naturally supportive of worker strikes.
    J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books, 22 Oct. 2020
Noun
  • Following building and loan manager George Bailey on an odyssey of rediscovery, the film continues to hold a place in the hearts of multiple generations with its message of value and appreciation for the everyman in America just trying to help his fellow neighbor get by.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Hartnett’s working-class suburban dad looks like a blandly handsome everyman attending a concert with his 12-year-old daughter, Riley (Ariel Donoghue), and then — bam!
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2024

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“Commoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commoner. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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