haute monde

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Noun
  • Intelligence is a little like the concept of nobility, said Alison Gopnik, a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has pioneered techniques for studying the cognitive abilities of babies and children.
    F.D. Flam, Twin Cities, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The new 2022 law called for reforming the teaching of Franco in schools, expanding reparations for Franco’s victims, introducing fines for displaying monuments to the old regime, abolishing some 33 titles of nobility awarded by Franco, and banning the Francisco Franco Foundation.
    Omar G. Encarnación, Time, 20 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • By the time Jackie arrived at Buckingham Palace for her first meeting with the Queen in June 1961 during her husband's presidency, she had long been fascinated by royalty.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
  • As a result, Rodrigo lost well over $1 million in royalties from all involved parties.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • Anthropic, whose ranks include many safety-minded defectors from its rival, argues the slower rollout will help society adapt to the powerful new tools.
    Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2026
  • Other educators included white teachers from the South and the North, sent by churches and aid societies.
    Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • The audio quality's shockingly clear For this little money?
    David Pogue, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Residents not only recognized the importance of nonprofits but reported trusting them more than any other sector to act on the public’s behalf and deliver quality services.
    Nonprofit Institute, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Grammer will play Lord Fairfax, the unofficial leader of the Virginia gentry who has a complicated relationship to young George Washington as both his crucial mentor and as the father of his romantic rival.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939, Natalia Molina systematically breaks down how, more than a century ago, the Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican communities of Los Angeles were portrayed as health threats to the white gentry.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Before the yuppie era, a certain staid gentility prevailed.
    Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 15 June 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
  • 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
  • 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 Jun. 2026.

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