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Recent Examples of burgher As the film starts, Maria is first met supervising a class trip to the local cider factory owned by local burgher Frank (Sean Gilder), whose daughter Pauline (Nia Brown) is in Maria’s class. Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025 But American offers a distinct mouth feel in a burgher that seemingly highbrow fromages simply can’t provide. Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 18 July 2025 Gerhard Siegel earns the audience’s gratitude by singing Herod not as a weak-willed despot but as a comically lascivious burgher out of Rosenkavalier. Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025 Women glide past, a mix of 19th-century bordello madams, shopkeepers and wives of wealthy burghers. Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025 Image The burghers who proffered sacrifice were spared at the last minute, French legend has it, making Rodin’s retrieval of life from death a symbolic one. Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 Seattle's best burgers (Image credit: Getty / Kevin Schafer) As of 2024, Dick's has been serving burgers to the burghers of Seattle for 70 years. Neil Davey, theweek, 16 Sep. 2024 By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches. Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024 Conversion of old office buildings into apartments, lofts and condos was underway, but local burghers saw the Super Bowl as a catalyst that could create a boom in downtown living. M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2024
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Noun
  • Can the president lower the flags for a private citizen?
    James Powel, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The story began moving in the other direction when Kaw Nation citizen James Pepper Henry visited the Sacred Red Rock in the 1990s, vowing one day bring the Stone home to the Kanza people.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But something in Chocolat—the tale of a single mother, Vianne, who opens a chocolate shop in front of the church, on the first day of Lent, in a tiny, conservative French village, setting the villagers at loggerheads—had captured the public imagination.
    Joanne Harris September 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With the support of villagers and a French smuggler, Grau embarks on a dangerous mission that jeopardizes his own life and that of his family, while reigniting wounds from the still-recent Spanish Civil War.
    Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Burgher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burgher. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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