as in carriage trade
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Recent Examples of plutocracy
Why is turning American democracy into a plutocracy so troubling?
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Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024
The problem with plutocracy is that billionaires are typically removed from the struggles of working- and middle-class citizens, ordinary folks who share neither the goals nor system of values of the ultrawealthy.
—Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024
American values are not the values of the plutocracy or the limited few rich people.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
American democracy has been hijacked by a one-man plutocracy.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
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Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024
The problem with plutocracy is that billionaires are typically removed from the struggles of working- and middle-class citizens, ordinary folks who share neither the goals nor system of values of the ultrawealthy.
—Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024
American values are not the values of the plutocracy or the limited few rich people.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
American democracy has been hijacked by a one-man plutocracy.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plutocracy
Noun
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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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Many non-Western societies embraced similar views, including Japan, a country that modernized rapidly in the twentieth century to compete with Western states while still retaining a distinct sense of its own identity.—
RANA MITTER,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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The analysis also offers new insights into broader lifestyle and relational shifts in Irish Neolithic society.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Apr. 2025
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See treasures The elegant artifacts likely belonged to a high-ranking individual, possibly a member of the aristocracy, experts said.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
16 Apr. 2025
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The period drama, which Marsh also co-wrote and starred in, tackled the decline of British aristocracy in the early 1900s, as depicted in the lives of the affluent Bellamy family and their servants.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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Weighing in at nearly eight pounds, 11 ounces and featuring more than 100 unpublished images, Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection (Abrams, October 3) gives insight into the man who most shaped public understanding of how the postwar global jet set lived.—
Ken Miller,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 Sep. 2023
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Dubai has also become a magnet for the millionaire and billionaire jet set.—
Kevin Rozario,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Plutocracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plutocracy. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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