peerage

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Recent Examples of peerage Season 3 featured their characters making a big bet on a green tech energy company led by a member of the British peerage, portrayed by Kit Harington, who told THR he’s been a long-time fan of Industry. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 June 2025 The attention of Lebedev—now the Baron of Hampton, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and of Siberia in the Russian Federation, thanks to a peerage bestowed by the other Boris—also drifted, to subjects such as extending human longevity. Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025 Image On Friday, Mr. Starmer submitted his first list of 30 nominees for peerages. 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 See All Example Sentences for peerage
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Noun
  • Other camellia species were noted and grown for their flowers gracing gardens of temples and nobility.
    Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The encounter amounts to a philosophical definition of nobility as something that owes nothing to titles or traditions.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • On Spotify, artists must reach 1,000 monthly streams before royalty payments are triggered.
    Shain Shapiro, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • British acting royalty Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Benedict Cumberbatch and Kate Winslet – who lends her voice to the film – were among the stars in attendance.
    Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The event brings together industry and research stakeholders to showcase robotics applications across society and industry.
    Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Sins of Kujo, adapted from Shohei Manabe’s manga, casts Yuya Yagira as a morally ambiguous lawyer who defends society’s most reprehensible figures, a dark, adult-skewing legal drama.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In modernizing and Americanizing the Charles Dickens novel, Alfonso Cuarón expunged many of Great Expectations’s subplots in favor of a 1998-friendly romantic drama that cemented Paltrow as an emblem of gentility.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Ferrara’s arrival in New York City and subsequent entry into the movie business is presented as something like a case of recidivism, a dive from suburban gentility into the cauldron of steaming garbage that was Fun City–era Manhattan.
    Nick Pinkerton, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Peerage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peerage. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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