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Recent Examples of everywoman
Britt, 42, spoke from an oddly Spartan kitchen, a backdrop that was intended to convey her everywoman credentials.
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Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2024
Instead, von Horn, whose last film Sweat also focused on a young woman coming apart at the seams, selects a troubled yet sympathetic everywoman as his point of entry.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
Flashes of everywoman will feature, but American Riviera Orchard sounds expensive and so Meghan must look expensive!
—Alice Newbold, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2024
Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection Beside Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst and Natalie Press as Emily Davison, two icons of the women’s suffrage movement, Mulligan plays an everywoman who is caught up in a protest and no longer able to tolerate the injustices of her life.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2024
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Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2024
Instead, von Horn, whose last film Sweat also focused on a young woman coming apart at the seams, selects a troubled yet sympathetic everywoman as his point of entry.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
Flashes of everywoman will feature, but American Riviera Orchard sounds expensive and so Meghan must look expensive!
—Alice Newbold, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2024
Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection Beside Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst and Natalie Press as Emily Davison, two icons of the women’s suffrage movement, Mulligan plays an everywoman who is caught up in a protest and no longer able to tolerate the injustices of her life.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for everywoman
Noun
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If a plain Jane hamburger is your thing, go for it.—
Rasputin Todd,
The Enquirer,
7 Sep. 2023
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When designing the resume format, think plain Jane, noncreative style highlighting your skills and accomplishments.—
Robin Ryan,
Forbes,
9 Nov. 2021
Noun
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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
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As a proudly class-conscious proletarian, Martin is naturally supportive of worker strikes.—
J. Hoberman,
The New York Review of Books,
22 Oct. 2020
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Glen Cavaliero, a fellow commoner at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and president of the Powys Society, was intrigued by a reference to Paul in Powys’s letters, tracked her books down, and included her in his study of English supernatural fiction for Oxford University Press.—
Joanna Biggs,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Feb. 2024
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Obasi can’t stand the stench of this alien — who's also a commoner, to boot — and solves the inconvenience by handing him off to his queen Eshe (Thandiwe Newton), who'll raise him in the company of the pride’s females.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
20 Dec. 2024
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Its practical function: No one, neither courtier nor plebeian, could stand close to the queen, conspicuous in her splendid isolation.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Dec. 2024
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But an unpleasant incident with a public transit plebeian leads Leighton to ponder the direction of her life.—
Rachel Seo,
Variety,
2 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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This series finds Allen as Matt, a widower, everyman and possessor of Fox News opinions.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2025
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The film is about this everyman finding his inner hero.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
31 Oct. 2024
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Fire crews were filling sandbags for communities while county workers installed barriers and cleared drainage pipes and basins.—
Marcio Jose Sanchez,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2025
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What workers want, as do customers, is an alignment to their values.—
Wayne Elsey,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Everywoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/everywoman. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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