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Recent Examples of peerage
King Charles is also said to be sending royal warrants to remove Andrew’s peerage in relation to York, Inverness, and Killyleagh.
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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.
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Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
Historical-romance authors love the British peerage system so much that bookstore shelves groan with many, many more dukedoms than the two dozen or so that actually existed in the United Kingdom of the 19th century.
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Karen Ostergren,
The Atlantic,
13 Oct. 2025
Like the book, the show is predicated on a classic Gilded Age bargain: American heiresses fill the dwindling coffers of the British peerage; correspondingly eligible dukes and lords bestow a noble title that papers over a nouveau-riche designation.
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Elle Carroll,
Vulture,
11 Aug. 2025
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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
Historical-romance authors love the British peerage system so much that bookstore shelves groan with many, many more dukedoms than the two dozen or so that actually existed in the United Kingdom of the 19th century.
—
Karen Ostergren,
The Atlantic,
13 Oct. 2025
Like the book, the show is predicated on a classic Gilded Age bargain: American heiresses fill the dwindling coffers of the British peerage; correspondingly eligible dukes and lords bestow a noble title that papers over a nouveau-riche designation.
—
Elle Carroll,
Vulture,
11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peerage
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But as far as nobility in football goes, Lagerbielke is a rare player to make it this far in their career, with a bright future seemingly still ahead.
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This piece of jewelry, worn by Princess Elisabeth, was a wedding gift from the Belgian nobility to Mathilde on the occasion of her wedding in 1999.
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The licensee needs to submit reports on a regular basis, such as reporting sales each quarter which determines royalties owed.
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Her show has picked up viewers over the years, and Coon has become television royalty after The White Lotus (and, for some voters, The Leftovers).
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His objections were financial and social: Constable had no steady income, and his family was not gentry.
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The nobles and gentry—the billionaires of Tudor England—made fortunes from the reclaimed monastery lands and created a myth of Henry’s military strength and English pride.
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These kinetic battles are creating the kind of real-life human interactions that aren’t so common in a modern society that revolves around smartphones.
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By contrast, generations of pubs have catered to a broad swath of society, so many Melburnians enjoy eating out affordably as a matter of course.
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Before the yuppie era, a certain staid gentility prevailed.
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While widely opposed because of the jarring mixture of southern gentility and Pittsburgh-centricity, the merger doubled the size of the airline and brought the Charlotte hub, now American’s second largest hub and the third biggest single airline hub in the world.
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“Peerage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peerage. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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