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the tabloids know that there's more money to be made from the antics of celebs than from the problems of the plebs
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Two millionaires stay millionaires by asking plebs to fund their children.
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Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2024
The intention to illuminate the political machinations of the Capitol and the importance of the games in maintaining the divide between the ruling class and the powerless plebs yields little beyond turgid gloom.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
Climate envoy John Kerry was successfully shamed into selling off his family’s Gulfstream GIV-SP last year and has reportedly switched to joining the plebs on commercial for most journeys.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 2 May 2023
The plebs were Rome's politicians, landowners and citizens.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
Scholars, however, don't entirely agree on what benefits patricians had over the plebs.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
His singing and theatrics and chariot racing offended their sense of decorum, while also garnering adoration of the plebs, threatening the precarious balance of power.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 17 June 2021
The plebs’s relative impoverishment in the wake of this would help give rise to an array of demagogues—and eventually the collapse of the Roman republic.
—Win McCormack, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2021
Political and economic elites fear nothing more than the plebs of the world uniting to challenge their rule, which is what sublime solidarity aims to do.
—Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2019
Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2024
The intention to illuminate the political machinations of the Capitol and the importance of the games in maintaining the divide between the ruling class and the powerless plebs yields little beyond turgid gloom.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
Climate envoy John Kerry was successfully shamed into selling off his family’s Gulfstream GIV-SP last year and has reportedly switched to joining the plebs on commercial for most journeys.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 2 May 2023
The plebs were Rome's politicians, landowners and citizens.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
Scholars, however, don't entirely agree on what benefits patricians had over the plebs.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
His singing and theatrics and chariot racing offended their sense of decorum, while also garnering adoration of the plebs, threatening the precarious balance of power.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 17 June 2021
The plebs’s relative impoverishment in the wake of this would help give rise to an array of demagogues—and eventually the collapse of the Roman republic.
—Win McCormack, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2021
Political and economic elites fear nothing more than the plebs of the world uniting to challenge their rule, which is what sublime solidarity aims to do.
—Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2019
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“Plebs.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plebs. Accessed 26 Sep. 2024.
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