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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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The film focuses on the power grabbing tête-à-tête between both Sarah and Abigail, with the latter even marrying a colonel in order to regain her nobility.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
23 Sep. 2025
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But in, say, the French Revolution, things got going in part because of the popular unrest and the popular upheavals, but also because there was an inner circle of members of the French nobility who were totally pissed at Louis XVI.—
Nikki McCann Ramirez,
Rolling Stone,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The company said taxpayers would benefit in future years from royalties on any coal mined.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
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Though the album’s genres are superficially diverse—you’ll hear flashes of grunge, trap, and, yes, reggae—its arrangements could work fine as royalty-free background music for content creators.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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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Elordi plays Heathcliff, the romantic anti-hero who is discovered on the streets before being taken in by a wealthy member of Britain’s landed gentry, only to fall in love with their daughter.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
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The proportion of Americans who believe legal sports betting is bad for both society and sport in the United States has increased sharply over the past three years, according to a new poll.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Money was flowing in, as the US and its allies attempted to rebuild civil society destroyed by the Taliban’s brutal rule from 1996 to 2001, even as fighting and insecurity still plagued swathes of the nation.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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But this was close to the borderline of gentility.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 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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“Peerage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peerage. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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