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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
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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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Gang plays Cheon-young, a commoner who is enslaved but never relinquishes his dignity.Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Nettles is a commoner who manages to tame a wild dragon, known as Sheepstealer.James Grebey, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2024
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The first is the secession of the plebeians, where commoners staged a walkout in protest of unfair treatment by the ruling class.Phil Kirschner, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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For us plebeians, riding a ski resort gondola means adhering to a lengthy set of rules.Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 24 Sep. 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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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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There isn’t a whiff of reality to this story, and Hanks is like an alien trying to play an everyman — he’s rarely seemed so uncomfortable and unconvincing. 36.Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
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Sometime later, a passing pipeline company worker pulled the vehicle from the ditch.Ryan J. Foley, Twin Cities, 16 Nov. 2024
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The company issued a follow-up notification at 10:41 a.m. that workers responded to a vapor release while performing maintenance on equipment.Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
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“Everywoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/everywoman. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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