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Recent Examples of burgher 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 The dire warnings that there would be blackouts, power shortages, and prostrated Germany industries unable to compete on the world market rattled many politicos and burghers, even though the blackouts never transpired and Germany exported at record levels last year. Paul Hockenos, Foreign Affairs, 26 Sep. 2013 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 The ensemble performs at Mass for the pleasure of the local burghers and townsfolk, whose contributions to Sant’Ignazio are obviously vital to its existence. Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for burgher
Noun
  • This meant that Iowa citizens were exposed to having meritless lawsuits brought against them to silence their free speech rights, or retaliate against them for having done so, through the use of the litigation process itself.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • The new law made married women dependent citizens; their citizenship status was now entirely derived from that of their husbands.
    Time, Time, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • And what are the judgy looks from villagers passing on the road about?
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
  • But villagers who live in Maoist territory are largely cut off from the country’s rapidly growing economy, and many live in fear, both of rebels taking their children as recruits and violent government raids.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 15 May 2025

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“Burgher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burgher. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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