as in carriage trade
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Recent Examples of plutocracy
The key political takeaway is that the White House is determined to frame the upcoming contest between Biden and Donald Trump as a choice between a Democrat fighting for the American middle class and a Republican stooge for the plutocracy.
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
Democracy can flip into plutocracy if a single party accrues enough voting credits, which gets easier when voter turnout is low.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2024
Once among America’s most oppressed populations, her triumph is not only immune to interrogation, so is American plutocracy for having anointed her as its apostle.
—Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2024
Democracy can flip into plutocracy if a single party accrues enough voting credits, which gets easier when voter turnout is low.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2024
Once among America’s most oppressed populations, her triumph is not only immune to interrogation, so is American plutocracy for having anointed her as its apostle.
—Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plutocracy
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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
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Bernheimer’s never sought the carriage trade.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
4 June 2022
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Those rights holders include record labels, publishers, independent distributors, performance rights organizations and collecting societies.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
28 Jan. 2025
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Emerging, re-emerging, and evolving pathogens continue to threaten society.—
Juan Manuel Santos,
TIME,
28 Jan. 2025
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However, because Edo descends from Italian aristocracy, his father previously told the Daily Mail that any of his children would be counts or nobile donna.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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In the faux aristocracy that is Hollywood, a Blake Lively should not have reason to meaningfully cross paths with a Justin Baldoni.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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In Ponza, everyone dances to the islanders’ tune, and the international jet set is not given much attention.—
Catherine Fairweather,
airmail.news,
21 Sep. 2024
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The club, which features North America’s first Endless Surf wave basin, is aimed at the millennial jet set and their families, who are more focused on wellness and adventure than sitting idly by the pool, cocktail in hand.—
Brooke Seipel,
Fortune,
4 Dec. 2024
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“Plutocracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plutocracy. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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