peerage

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Recent Examples of peerage 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 During his investigations, Mr. Chanin used an online database that tracks the genealogical history of the British peerage and unearthed a name that looked similar: the Honorable Robert Anthony Rayne. Joshua Needelman, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023 The fictional Kingdom of Redonda is something of a running in-joke among European artists, who occupy the throne and make up most of its peerage. Clay Risen, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2022 He later was granted a peerage, making Jane a baroness. Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 31 May 2022 See All Example Sentences for peerage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peerage
Noun
  • There is nobility in the climb, the challenge, the struggle.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The Sermon on the Mount, with all its grandeur and divine nobility of heart, has proved futile in diminishing the lust and gratification of raw power.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The agreement includes potential developmental and sales milestone payments and royalties.
    Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Long before luxury travel events, a twentysomething McCarthy was Hollywood royalty, starring in popular ’80s movies like Pretty in Pink and Weekend at Bernie’s, kicking it with Demi Moore and hanging on posters in every 14-year-old girl’s bedroom.
    DeMarco Williams, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • She as the most gentry eyes and a delightful personality.
    Trish Stinger, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The Whitehaven neighborhood had developed in the late 19th century and attracted as residents the Memphis gentry.
    Michael T. Bertrand, The Conversation, 5 June 2024
Noun
  • Burns very explicitly articulates the sport as being foundational to our culture and reflective of our society’s ideals.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2025
  • What’s happening in society where a boy stabs a girl to death?
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Ed’s monstrous behavior under the influence of cortisone shatters the veneer of middle-class gentility to reveal the fault lines repressed beneath it.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Like Michaels, the band wanted to maintain its nonconformist cred, even though its members were verging on gentility.
    Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2025

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“Peerage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peerage. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.

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