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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.
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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
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Long Names for Boys Often tied to strength, heritage, and tradition, long names for boys are sometimes tied to nobility.—
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Its medical professionals aren’t just competent but morally perfect, their personal failings serving mainly to make their essential nobility more tangible.—
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Surrounded by Bruins royalty — including fellow number retirees Bobby Orr, Johnny Bucyk, Terry O’Reilly, Rick Middleton, Cam Neely and Willie O’Ree — Chara remained more or less stoic.—
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The future judge once hand-delivered $3 million to the Italian kidnappers of Getty’s grandson, in 1973, CalMatters reported, while noting deep ties also between the Newsom family and other San Francisco political royalty, the Browns and Pelosis.—
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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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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.—
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Thinking globally and acting locally means electing people of vision, not people who couldn't find their way out of a paper bag without a lobbyist lighting their way under the table, or down the wrong path where for-profit companies rule and teachers are scapegoated for society's failures.—
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In a society full of cookie cutter McMansions, scrolling through customizable tiny houses on Amazon is one of my favorite forms of escapism.—
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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.—
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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.—
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“Peerage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peerage. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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