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Recent Examples of lordship
The standout is the lordship apartment sequence [in Episode 2] and the jump off the balcony.
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Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
Under the Zhou dynasty, many smaller lordships fought for power in their regions including Hubei Province where the tombs are buried, according to Britannica.
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Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2024
In 1606, the estate’s lordship was acquired by Jean Sève, a Calvinist who played an important role in the uprising that led to Lyon coming back under the authority of Henry IV in 1594.
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Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
12 Apr. 2024
But, of course, Scott’s betrayal is a small episode in the collapse of decency and any sense of shame that Trump’s lordship demands of his acolytes.
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Christian Schneider,
National Review,
25 Jan. 2024
Oliver has a chance to do Felix a favor—his lordship is late for class, and his bike has a flat.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
18 Nov. 2023
To kill it is not to restate one’s lordship over the earth but rather to recognize and kill a destructive aspect in our own nature.
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Aatish Taseer,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2023
This sounds like a mutually beneficial arrangement between his lordship and the royal spouse.
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Mike Bass,
The Enquirer,
25 Aug. 2021
Declaring a man’s sins forgiven, referring to himself as greater than the Temple, claiming lordship over the Sabbath and authority over the Torah, insisting that his followers love him more than their mothers and fathers, more than their very lives, Jesus assumed a divine prerogative.
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Robert Barron,
WSJ,
2 Apr. 2021
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
Under the Zhou dynasty, many smaller lordships fought for power in their regions including Hubei Province where the tombs are buried, according to Britannica.
—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2024
In 1606, the estate’s lordship was acquired by Jean Sève, a Calvinist who played an important role in the uprising that led to Lyon coming back under the authority of Henry IV in 1594.
—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
12 Apr. 2024
But, of course, Scott’s betrayal is a small episode in the collapse of decency and any sense of shame that Trump’s lordship demands of his acolytes.
—
Christian Schneider,
National Review,
25 Jan. 2024
Oliver has a chance to do Felix a favor—his lordship is late for class, and his bike has a flat.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
18 Nov. 2023
To kill it is not to restate one’s lordship over the earth but rather to recognize and kill a destructive aspect in our own nature.
—
Aatish Taseer,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2023
This sounds like a mutually beneficial arrangement between his lordship and the royal spouse.
—
Mike Bass,
The Enquirer,
25 Aug. 2021
Declaring a man’s sins forgiven, referring to himself as greater than the Temple, claiming lordship over the Sabbath and authority over the Torah, insisting that his followers love him more than their mothers and fathers, more than their very lives, Jesus assumed a divine prerogative.
—
Robert Barron,
WSJ,
2 Apr. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lordship
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The British North America Act came into effect, uniting the separate territories of the Province of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into one dominion called Canada.
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Italy has a colonial past, of course, and its government forces committed atrocities in areas under Italian dominion in East Africa between the 1880s and 1941.
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African prince Akeem is trading palaces, from his lavish kingdom to Queens in search of a woman who loves him for him.
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Daeron Targaryen Daeron Targaryen, otherwise known as Daeron the Drunkard, is a bookish and melancholy Targaryen prince known for his prophetic dreams.
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The United Arab Emirates and Qatar - which have both been repeatedly struck by Iranian projectiles - condemned Iran's attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait, describing them as violations of those countries' sovereignty and international law.
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Furthermore, owning infrastructure can bolster data privacy and sovereignty, mitigating cybersecurity risks amidst increasing breaches.
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The duke traditionally accompanies the monarch in the lead carriage of the Royal Procession, a custom that dates back to 1825, when the first Duke of Wellington rode alongside King George IV.
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Enmeshed in scandal, the former duke and duchess of York have practically vanished from public view – and so have the queen's dinky golden furballs.
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Story noted that Rodríguez’s political ascendancy happened under Maduro.
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But Vance's ascendancy to the White House, plus the growing popularity of Vivek Ramaswamy among the GOP, forced DeWine to play political chess and set his former lieutenant governor on a new course.
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Cruise sports a thick Southern accent, a beer belly and thinning white hair (fashioned in an unconvincing combover) to play the oil baron whose company may have set off an ecological disaster that could also spark a nuclear war.
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Lipstye and others worried that Shelter Island was becoming a place dominated by wealthy barons who weren’t necessarily invested in the community — a place, in short, like the South Fork.
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In fact, at the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1991, Syria established what amounted to absolute political, military and economic hegemony over Lebanon, during which thousands of Lebanese disappeared.
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The way in which sculpture has been used either by ideological regimes or political hegemonies is a long history.
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In the book, Benedict falls for Sophie Beckett, the daughter of an earl who’s been hidden away from the Ton and forced to work as a housemaid by her spiteful stepmother.
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With James' support, George became an earl, a marquess and ultimately a duke (a rarity for nonroyals).
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“Lordship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lordship. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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