1
as in nobleman
a man of high birth or social position
claims to be related to an English peer
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2
as in equivalent
one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value
a jury of one's peers
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as in to gaze
to look long and hard in wonder or surprise
visitors seem mesmerized as they peer at the variety of marine life in the aquarium's huge tank
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Recent Examples of peer
Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 18 July 2025
Scheffler’s patient approach has garnered praise from his peers.
—Max Rego, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
James Rebanks
june 26, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
And those windows Serling did peer through offered not a view of an unimaginable future society but of a problematic contemporary one.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2025
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Noun
Unlike his peers, however, Small wasn’t stoked for competitions.
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 18 July 2025
Scheffler’s patient approach has garnered praise from his peers.
—Max Rego, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
Verb
And women peering out of small wooden huts in epic Arctic wildernesses.
—James Rebanks
june 26, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
And those windows Serling did peer through offered not a view of an unimaginable future society but of a problematic contemporary one.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peer
Noun
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Edgar Ravenswood, a Scottish nobleman, speaks in Standard English throughout the text.—
Rachel Ashcroft
July 7,
Literary Hub,
7 July 2025
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At a young age, like a nobleman in earlier centuries, Malaparte was dispatched to be raised by others—in this case, a metalworker’s family on the city’s outskirts.—
Thomas Meaney,
New Yorker,
2 July 2025
Verb
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Some even have private fire pits on the balcony—perfect for cool evenings, gazing at the stars.—
Rafael Peña,
Travel + Leisure,
14 July 2025
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In one photograph, Second Lieutenant Cuthbert Higgins gazes at the camera with movie-star intensity.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
Noun
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Further blurring the line between fact and fiction, at a cocktail party in the sequel Stark bumps into tech-titan Larry Ellison and races a car in the Monaco Historic Grand Prix, a real-life auto race for gentlemen drivers.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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Jannik Sinner, the Wimbledon gentlemen’s singles champion, generated $9.1 million in media impact value.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
21 July 2025
Noun
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For Hacks, Megan Stalter and Paul W. Downs didn't receive any nods, though some of their counterparts like Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder did.—
Stephanie Wenger,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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That’s no longer the case, thanks to innovations like Nova, which deliver impressive results that rival those of their less sustainable counterparts.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
15 July 2025
Verb
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It’s described as a long, blank and expressionless stare in a variety of social situations.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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Vortex Media has all rights in Canada to the film staring Maren Heary (She Said), Jim Kaplan (The Holdovers), Karsen Liotta (Black Bird), Dominic Bogart (Fear The Walking Dead), Emily Hall (Wrong Numbers) and Tenley Kellogg.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
14 July 2025
Noun
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Jessica Riedl, former staff director of the U.S. Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth—who spent a decade as Heritage lead research fellow on federal budget and spending policy—was among the many paying tribute to Feulner on social media.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 July 2025
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Funding also supports the stipends of research fellows, postdoctoral scholars and promising early-career mathematicians.—
Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
18 July 2025
Verb
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Where’s the line between puzzling out his psychology and just gawking at a sicko for nine hours?—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
18 July 2025
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Number one, of course, would be Leonardo da Vinci, whose Mona Lisa at the Louvre is always surrounded by a gawking mob.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
Noun
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Since then he’s noticed the tool gain popularity among his residents and surgeon colleagues.—
Amy Feldman,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Many of the couple’s close friends and colleagues took to the comment section to congratulate them on the new arrival.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
14 July 2025
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“Peer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peer. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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