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Recent Examples of great house
His legend has been honed in building, rebuilding, Europe’s great houses.
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Rory Smith, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
There’s a certain political commentary here, too, about who’s allowed to rule the great houses of Dune, what roles women are confined to, and how the Bene Gesserit turn women’s social limitations and underestimations to their advantage.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
The Bene Gesserit are, uh, geneticists These space witches are running a gigantic, generations-long breeding program to guide all the great houses and eventually put the perfect person, or Kwisatz Haderach, on the Imperium throne and under their control.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
The two great houses of organized crime in Gotham lie in rubble.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2024
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Rory Smith, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
There’s a certain political commentary here, too, about who’s allowed to rule the great houses of Dune, what roles women are confined to, and how the Bene Gesserit turn women’s social limitations and underestimations to their advantage.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
The Bene Gesserit are, uh, geneticists These space witches are running a gigantic, generations-long breeding program to guide all the great houses and eventually put the perfect person, or Kwisatz Haderach, on the Imperium throne and under their control.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
The two great houses of organized crime in Gotham lie in rubble.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for great house
Noun
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However, the variety of architecture within the famed eastern Long Island towns actually ranges from English Country manor houses and Neoclassical mansions to Colonial Revival estates and sleek contemporary dwellings.—
Emma Reynolds,
Robb Report,
27 Jan. 2025
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Live out your Pride and Prejudice dreams in Derbyshire Several historic manor houses and estates across Derbyshire and the Peak District served as the sets for both the 1995 BBC television adaptation and the 2005 film adaptation of Austen’s most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice.—
Cat Sposato,
AFAR Media,
17 Jan. 2025
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The villa began life in 1928 as the Los Angeles Times Demonstration Home—a flagship of an élite new development, the Miramar Estates.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2025
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The Houston native’s time in the villa looks to have earned Page an impressive social media following of over 4.4 million fans across Instagram and TikTok alone.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
31 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile her brother Jaden Smith arrived at the 2025 Grammy Awards while wearing a Louis Vuitton tuxedo and a castle as a bonnet.—
Marissa Muller,
WWD,
2 Feb. 2025
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Workers began building Sforza in 1358, but the castle was destroyed during a period of political unrest about a century later.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Jan. 2025
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In June, Sacks, previously a Trump critic, hosted a fundraiser at his Pacific Heights mansion that raised $12 million for the Republican leader’s presidential campaign.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
5 Feb. 2025
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News that Lopez and Affleck were selling their marital mansion broke last June, months after speculation began that they were headed for divorce.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
1 Feb. 2025
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The film, macabre and atmospheric from start to finish, relocates the classic folklore to an isolated hacienda in a Mexican village where a young woman has returned to bury her aunt.—
DeAnna Janes,
Harper's BAZAAR,
28 Aug. 2023
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She was born on May 29, 1917 and grew up in a hacienda in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.—
Natalia Torija Nieto,
ELLE Decor,
28 Sep. 2022
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But Tavitian, while a lover of fine wine, especially Burgundy, was not born to the manor.—
Ted Loos,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2024
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Qualley is set to play a governess who is taking care of children in a remote gothic manor while hiding her psychopathic tendencies.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
20 Jan. 2025
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That means putting it in public museums, rather than the traditional palaces of ceremonial monarchs.—
Ralph Leonard,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
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According to the palace’s post on X, the photo was taken by her six-year old son Prince Louis.—
Max Saltman,
CNN,
3 Feb. 2025
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The textile entrepreneurs Phoebe Sung and Peter Buer live in a 1910s Ridgewood town house with their two young daughters By Morgan GoldbergPhotography by Seth Caplan January 30, 2025 All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors.—
Morgan Goldberg,
Architectural Digest,
30 Jan. 2025
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Some introductory events were held at the Foundation’s town house, which holds much of Foster’s archive of drawings, sketchbooks, and models.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Great house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20house. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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