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Recent Examples of plutocracy
All of this was a considered response to European systems within which a tiny plutocracy had built power and control over land and people, especially through familial inheritance.
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Tyler Green,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
The Populists opted for an alliance, promising a war on the plutocracy.
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David McWilliams,
Fortune,
16 Nov. 2025
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Tyler Green,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
The Populists opted for an alliance, promising a war on the plutocracy.
—
David McWilliams,
Fortune,
16 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for plutocracy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plutocracy
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Both industrialized what had previously been cottage industries—in Ford’s case, the artisanal carriage trade; in Seabrook’s, market gardening.
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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.
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Steinbeck creates a microcosm of American society, where disability, gender, race and class are all represented and shaped by an economic hierarchy.
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The comments sorted themselves into camps, each revealing something interesting about how our society has come to think about motherhood, sacrifice and raising children.
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At last, Jones also thought, there was a chance to spotlight the dynamic between North Wales‘ working-class community and its aristocracy on the big screen, a corner of Britain’s social history that has long been sidelined.
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Meanwhile, its extensive aristocracy dominated its society and economy.
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The prestigious tennis championship is a staple of the Season, aka the unofficial social events calendar of London’s glitterati.
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Yet for all his issues outside of golf, his mere presence still gets a room full of golf glitterati and paparazzi buzzing.
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The characters are thin and the plot often ludicrous, but the sight of beautiful people making bad decisions is soothing enough to override one’s critical faculties.
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His recruiting focused on the beautiful people of the 1980s, so the screen fills with jet-setting supermodels and nights at Studio 54.
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More than an idyllic lakeside hamlet beloved by the international jet set, the northern Italian town of Como and the surrounding area are home to the country’s biggest silk-making districts, part of Italy’s fashion supply chain backbone.
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The business jet set flew from Montreal, Canada, to Nice, France, in just over six hours.
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