lordships

plural of lordship

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Noun
  • And now, with a lucrative new four-year deal for film and TV at Paramount for their production company, Upside Down Pictures, they’re primed to become the crown princes of Hollywood.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Saudi Arabia launched a high-profile effort to stamp out corruption in 2017 with the detention of princes, government ministers, and business moguls at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, recovering over $100 billion in assets.
    Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Teeming with tennis courts, specimen trees and stone mansions raised from the dirt by 19th-century railroad barons, the suburb makes wealth feel like weather, an ozone layer shrouding everything — ambient, constant and vital.
    New York Times, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But the grab bag of parts—cheese barons, Nazis—never comes together, and the old obsessions never acquire new force.
    Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Lordships.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lordships. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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