haute monde

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Noun
  • Lagerbielke — or more accurately, the 11th Baron Lagerbielke — is a member of the Swedish nobility and lies 254th in line to the country’s throne.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Known as the Dragon Slayer, he’s often shown meditating, praying, waxing philosophical, and pontificating on nobility, integrity and honor.
    Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Alesi said royalties could generate roughly $19 million a month for Oiapoque, about the equivalent of the city’s total goods and services produced each year, according to Brazil’s statistics institute.
    Gabriela Sá Pessoa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Alesi said royalties could generate roughly 100 million reais ($19 million) a month for Oiapoque, about the equivalent of the city's total goods and services produced each year, according to Brazil's statistics institute.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • One begins to think that the condition is hereditary—that, instead of a Habsburg jaw, the wealthy white denizens of New Orleans high society are saddled with emotional problems.
    Brandy Jensen, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The traditional theatrical chains are vital to our cohesion as a society, and are duly cautious [about AI].
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • A little more than a week into the season, the Padres have two quality starts out of their rotation.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The MorphoScan is even missing a couple of quality-of-life features present on the Etekcity scale, including a safe mode for pregnant women and pacemaker users that disables the BIA electrical current for weight-only measurements.
    Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In addition to seeking Mandelson’s withdrawal from the House of Lords, Starmer has sought to strip him of his peerage — a somewhat Herculean task that can only be done through an act of parliament.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 3 Feb. 2026
  • On Monday, a Downing Street spokesperson said that Starmer believes that Mandelson should be stripped of his peerage.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 2 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • But the glory and gentility that had been the Pontchartrain was gone.
    Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Link, whose real name is Dylan, helped to create Alex prior to the mass extinction event that sent the world's upper crust into Paradise.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Two leagues that are deeper but don't have that really thick upper crust would be the Big 10 and the SEC.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 13 Mar. 2026
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“Haute monde.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haute%20monde. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.

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