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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
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
Noun
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Refugeoly is designed to navigate your way from a country in conflict to a country that grants you asylum, essentially a new home.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Sep. 2025
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The outpouring of support for Qatar after Israel’s attack on a Hamas compound in Doha was notable, given that many of the same countries had embargoed it only a few years ago.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The story follows a college student who returns to her hometown where a babysitter was recently brutally murdered.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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The first date is in Vancouver, and Xaviersobased will stop in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Detroit, and elsewhere, before wrapping things up, on December 18, with a hometown show at New York’s Webster Hall.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
19 Sep. 2025
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This Chardonnay is both a step forward and a nod to its roots, Myers says, as Chardonnay was one of the first grapes that founder Justin Baldwin planted in his vineyard.—
Jeanette Hurt,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The problem is that standing water in the soil deprives roots of oxygen.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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The infectious energy and Justin Bieber-style appeal of 25-year-old country hitmaker Bailey Zimmerman was not reflected in the CMA nominations.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Around the same time, Donato discovered the Don Kelley Band at Robert's and was locked in on old country music.—
Audrey Gibbs,
The Tennessean,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Blighty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Blighty. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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