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Recent Examples of Blighty
The scene plays out like a Blighty version of A Few Good Men, with Dalton in the Tom Cruise role, deftly provoking Livingston into a confession.
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Jack King, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2025
According to The Associated Press, more than 29,000 people have hit the shores of Blighty this year on small boats, after over 46,000 last year.
—Adam Shaw, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2023
Indeed, Blighty’s inward investment drum has been beating long and loudly with a focus on studios and streamers, who drove a majority of the U.K.’s near £5 billion ($6 billion) of qualifying film and High End TV productions in 2022.
—Angus Finney, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
The big event might be over in Old Blighty, but don’t feel forlorn, royal-lovers.
—Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
Not far away is an earlier housing development that is even more redolent of Blighty: Foxhall Village.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Blighty
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Hollywood couple Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors received Guinean citizenship after tracing their ancestry to the West African country through DNA testing.—
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Our country is built on immigrants.—
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One was born near my father’s hometown in Choctaw County, Alabama, and ended up in the Delta, just as my father briefly did.—
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The trailer wastes little time establishing its pressure-cooker premise, quickly barricading five teenagers inside their high school as their hometown collapses into chaos.—
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Overwatering The main reasons orchid roots get mushy and cause leaf wilt are overwatering or poor drainage, according to Kondrat.—
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According to Nitzsche, simmer pots have historical roots, with a presences across cultures.—
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King Charles, 77, established the charity in 1990 to create communities where people, places and the planet can harmoniously coexist, and the organization is headquartered at the 300-year-old country home on a 2,000-acre estate.—
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The 37-year-old country singer shared a carousel of photos on Instagram featuring her family's New Year's Eve celebration on the beach.—
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“Blighty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Blighty. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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