plutocracy

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Recent Examples of plutocracy Many billionaires have additionally rigged economic policies in their favor by lobbying and in some cases, assuming government positions, known as a plutocracy, Rebekka Ayres argues in an op-ed for Teen Vogue. Devika Rao, The Week, 26 Nov. 2022 One suspects that his problem with plutocracy isn’t its existence, but that membership in it didn’t save him when a fall guy was needed. Laura Kipnis, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022 One school of progressive thought says that America has devolved (once again, perhaps) into a plutocracy. Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 11 July 2022 Social equity pits people with very little wealth and clout against the plutocracy that runs the world, with billions of dollars at stake. Amanda Chicago Lewis, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2022 See all Example Sentences for plutocracy 
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Noun
  • Once the sale of the North Avenue Market complex was official a few weeks ago, a new arts partnership began envisioning a future for this 1928 landmark where Baltimore’s carriage trade once did their food shopping.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Bernheimer’s never sought the carriage trade.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
Noun
  • The writers and academics who abandoned Marxism to found the neoconservative movement were deeply concerned with political freedom and the moral decline of American society.
    Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Having worked in these upper echelons of British royal society, she was subsequently convicted of murdering her husband Thomas Cressman in 2001.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Two worlds, one of a dwindling aristocracy, and the other of racing capitalism converge and throw up a whirlwind of clashing ambitions, steamy romance, chic couture and fashion-forward Instagrammable moments.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
  • When the Norman Conquest in 1066 installed a French feudal aristocracy in the British Isles, the invaders brought with them a love of winemaking.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Her muses, her husbands, her lovers–Lempicka was bisexual–the European and American jet set.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Those with deep pockets head to Costa Smeralda — or Emerald Coast — known for its yacht-loving jet set, upscale golf resorts and designer stores.
    Lucy Handley, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024

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“Plutocracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plutocracy. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.

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