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Long Names for Boys Often tied to strength, heritage, and tradition, long names for boys are sometimes tied to nobility.—
Sherri Gordon,
Parents,
13 Jan. 2026 -
Its medical professionals aren’t just competent but morally perfect, their personal failings serving mainly to make their essential nobility more tangible.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2026
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Surrounded by Bruins royalty — including fellow number retirees Bobby Orr, Johnny Bucyk, Terry O’Reilly, Rick Middleton, Cam Neely and Willie O’Ree — Chara remained more or less stoic.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
16 Jan. 2026
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The future judge once hand-delivered $3 million to the Italian kidnappers of Getty’s grandson, in 1973, CalMatters reported, while noting deep ties also between the Newsom family and other San Francisco political royalty, the Browns and Pelosis.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
15 Jan. 2026
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Thinking globally and acting locally means electing people of vision, not people who couldn't find their way out of a paper bag without a lobbyist lighting their way under the table, or down the wrong path where for-profit companies rule and teachers are scapegoated for society's failures.—
SHELLEY SMITH SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE,
Arkansas Online,
10 Jan. 2026
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In a society full of cookie cutter McMansions, scrolling through customizable tiny houses on Amazon is one of my favorite forms of escapism.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Jan. 2026
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The fabric is soft to the touch and of good quality.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
13 Jan. 2026
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From high-fashion runways to interior decor showrooms, the minimalism trend touched every corner of the design world, with creatives finding new ways to cut off the excess and focus on shape, quality, and bare-bones beauty.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Jan. 2026
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King Charles is also said to be sending royal warrants to remove Andrew’s peerage in relation to York, Inverness, and Killyleagh.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
30 Oct. 2025
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The Duke of York is the traditional title for the sovereign's second son, and the elite peerage has a rich royal history.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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The nobles and gentry—the billionaires of Tudor England—made fortunes from the reclaimed monastery lands and created a myth of Henry’s military strength and English pride.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Oct. 2025
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Parker will play Mary Washington, George’s strong willed mother, while Rodgers will play Sally Cary, the charming beauty of the Virginia gentry who first sees his potential.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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In modernizing and Americanizing the Charles Dickens novel, Alfonso Cuarón expunged many of Great Expectations’s subplots in favor of a 1998-friendly romantic drama that cemented Paltrow as an emblem of gentility.—
Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
25 Dec. 2025
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Ferrara’s arrival in New York City and subsequent entry into the movie business is presented as something like a case of recidivism, a dive from suburban gentility into the cauldron of steaming garbage that was Fun City–era Manhattan.—
Nick Pinkerton,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Her dalliance with England's upper crust didn't stop there, either — the baker went on to provide the cake for Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday in 2016.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Sep. 2025
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Even with the other guys' admonitions not to, under any circumstances, be themselves, Dee and Charlie's improbable success in charming these scions of the Philly upper crust had the guys — and us — both baffled and anxiously awaiting an ugly twist.—
Dennis Perkins,
EW.com,
10 July 2025
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“Haute monde.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haute%20monde. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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