blue-blooded

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Recent Examples of blue-blooded Tech and finance bros rubbed shoulders with old-money, blue-blooded Burgundians. George Nelson For Artnews, Robb Report, 9 July 2026 Of course, that won’t stop orange-and-blue-blooded Knicks fans from teeming into the area near the team’s Manhattan arena to watch on bar TVs and big screens as their team — playing 1,580 miles (2,545 kilometers) away in San Antonio — looks to clinch its first title in 53 years. ABC News, 13 June 2026 Her blue-blooded husband is a silver fox (Hugh Grant) or an Adonis (Alexander Skarsgård). Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026 The recruiting stars attached to a player’s name do not guarantee success any more than a coach’s blue-blooded bonafides ensure his greatness. Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026 Yasmin exited finance altogether, embracing her destiny as the socialite bride-to-be of blue-blooded aristocrat Henry Muck (Kit Harington). Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Jan. 2026 So just more of these blue-blooded programs down there. Katie Campione, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025 The official khipu experts would have been born to blue-blooded families and raised for positions of importance. ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blue-blooded
Adjective
  • Often, entrants include these alongside aristocratic and highbrow interests in a way that could reduce the appearance of snobbishness.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The Village Photographer Madeleine de Sinéty sloughed off her aristocratic upbringing and spent her life capturing small-town life in Brittany and Maine.
    The New York Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Making Shakespeare’s plays accessible is a noble goal, but there are other ways to go about this beyond modernizing the text and diluting its lyrical beauty and nuance.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • This is Edward, the aging King of England, talking to the ambitious noble Harold Godwinson.
    John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

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“Blue-blooded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blue-blooded. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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