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Recent Examples of peerage
Image On Friday, Mr. Starmer submitted his first list of 30 nominees for peerages.
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Mark Landler, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
To win a vote in Parliament, James sometimes simply established new peerages.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
King Charles' coronation organizer Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, uniquely inherited the royal responsibility through his peerage title.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
The Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn (a Scottish peerage), and Baron of Carrickfergus (an Irish peerage).
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 8 Sep. 2022
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Mark Landler, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
To win a vote in Parliament, James sometimes simply established new peerages.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
King Charles' coronation organizer Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, uniquely inherited the royal responsibility through his peerage title.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
The Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn (a Scottish peerage), and Baron of Carrickfergus (an Irish peerage).
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 8 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peerage
Noun
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Sitting for a portrait was once reserved for the elite, with kings, queens, and nobility commissioning grand works to immortalize themselves and assert their authority.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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And sure, there’s nobility in that.—
Kevin Sintumuang,
Outside,
27 Aug. 2025
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Built in 1879 by enterprising townsfolk, the Zermatterhof has been welcoming royalty, celebrities, and intrepid mountaineers for nearly a century and a half.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Sep. 2025
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The verdict established that a home is a castle, no matter what color the royalty within.—
Neal Rubin,
Freep.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
Noun
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Ken embodied the best of everything the Montreal Canadiens are about, and his legacy within our society transcends our sport.—
Jesse Granger,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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However, critics see it as rooting for the underdog running amok, spotting an academic Marxist concept used to limit a free society.—
John Scott Lewinski,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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Modesty, gentility, and protocol have no place in the apartment grope.—
Nicholas Pileggi,
Curbed,
15 Aug. 2025
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During his adolescence, the sensibility among the youth was to turn away from the gentility of the race man and toward the existential and the militant.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 June 2025
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“Peerage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peerage. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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