plutocracy

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Recent Examples of plutocracy Where their influence prevailed, the result was sometimes called plutocracy, or the rule of the rich. Ron Elving, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025 While the United States has long been characterized by powerful corporate interests, this direct conversion of political authority into digital assets suggests movement toward a new form of plutocracy, where political power and wealth become increasingly indistinguishable. Alexandra Andhov, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025 Welcome to American plutocracy. Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024 Why is turning American democracy into a plutocracy so troubling? Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024 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
  • This includes the experiential learning that accompanies volunteer service, immersing students, three-dimensionally, in the lives and worlds of society’s marginalized.
    Michael Serazio, Time, 28 May 2025
  • While studies have found that bed bugs have been on Earth since the dinosaurs, the estimated 90 species of the arthropods shared a fairly stable symbiotic relationship with their hosts – until human ancestors began forming societies and living in close proximity.
    Bronwyn Thompson, New Atlas, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • The pride of the British aristocracy and a heroine to gay people and ethnic minorities.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 10 May 2025
  • Afternoon tea parties have a rich history among the British aristocracy but are less common in North America.
    Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Interestingly, this isn't to attract corporate clients or leisure travelers who want to upgrade from another part of the plane—the main aim is to attract the private jet set, who might be encouraged by ecological guilt and a desire to reduce the price tag of a private plane.
    Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Weighing in at nearly eight pounds, 11 ounces and featuring more than 100 unpublished images, Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection (Abrams, October 3) gives insight into the man who most shaped public understanding of how the postwar global jet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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