grandee

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Recent Examples of grandee Instead, the concept has been perverted to mean higher-ed grandees' exclusive right to determine who participates in scholarly life. Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025 Their accomplishments also earned them the attention of the grandees in Beijing. Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2025 To go on about Volcker—who surely was an excellent Fed chair—is to mistake grandees for the action that mattered. Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024 Or has the shock of encountering the wild variety of views visible on Elon Musk’s X just been too much for grandees used to moving in circles where the acceptable boundaries of disagreement are narrowly drawn? The Editors, National Review, 10 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for grandee
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Noun
  • Hermès traces its history to 1837 as a harness workshop for European noblemen, and today, the company still has a healthy equestrian business.
    Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This undead, blood-sucking Transylvanian nobleman was the creation of the Anglo-Irish author Bram Stoker.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Edouard Langlois, a formidable dark-bearded gentleman, was the artistic director of the local Edwin Booth Theatre.
    Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Golf has been a gentleman’s sport.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Grandee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandee. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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