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Recent Examples of pleb
Occasionally, like tonight, a chiseled pleb or square-jawed gym owner will pass muster, taking her to some exclusive club in Tribeca.
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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
While the plebs are busy navigating the perils of ride sharing in 2017—should I #deleteuber? does Lyft still require fist bumps?—the überrich have problems of their own.
—Henri Gendreau, WIRED, 18 May 2017
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
While the plebs are busy navigating the perils of ride sharing in 2017—should I #deleteuber? does Lyft still require fist bumps?—the überrich have problems of their own.
—Henri Gendreau, WIRED, 18 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pleb
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
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In the days of the Roman Empire, plebeians and patricians alike entertained themselves by watching men fight to the death.James Grebey, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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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“Pleb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleb. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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