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Recent Examples of gentry These bodies have historically overwhelmingly catered to a tiny sliver of the population — predominantly white, gentry liberals. Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025 But to assume the weekend was all the sanctum of the media landed gentry would be to assume wrong. Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2025 In particular, Gilbert’s primary satire, of the English gentry, is unsalvageable. Jesse Green, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025 Members of Virginia’s gentry chafed at this ban, and Washington had spent years lobbying Dunmore to use his influence to reverse this restriction. Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gentry
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gentry
Noun
  • The rise of the bias cut was a silhouette on which Robbins wanted to focus, imbuing the fluid style with elements of luxury and glamour intrinsic to the aristocracy.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Many members of Putin’s aristocracy continue to hold out hope that after the end of hostilities, everything will become, if not different, then at least milder.
    ANDREI KOLESNIKOV, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The university said the campus is closed and classes are canceled until Monday.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • However, since school calendars in the city and county are generally set at the beginning of the calendar year, the special recall election was scheduled regardless of teacher in-service days, student class schedules and other events, Kieffer said.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So there's a nobility in that, but also an ickiness.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Sitting for a portrait was once reserved for the elite, with kings, queens, and nobility commissioning grand works to immortalize themselves and assert their authority.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The macro 20th century Western rhetoric about Catholic charity can surely be critiqued for not engaging with the driving ideological role of caste, but that is not the interest of nor the purview of this film.
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The Ramayana has hundreds of versions — across states, dialects, castes.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Cianfrance said the congregation in the movie is made up of local actors and folks familiar with the Roofman story.
    Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Show the shop floor in action Don’t underestimate how compelling your day-to-day operations can be to folks outside your four walls.
    Ethan Karp, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Julia Fonseca, a professor at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, cautioned against homebuyers attempting to predict the level of mortgage rates.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Hale thinks the housing market overall is a bit healthier than the low level of sales might indicate, however.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So far, the committee has issued 10 subpoenas and released a slew of documents from Epstein’s estate and over 30,000 pages from the Department of Justice.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Darkly funny and deeply melancholic, the film turns the family estate into a pressure cooker of grief, grudges and reluctant affection.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Gentry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gentry. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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