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Recent Examples of peerage
On Monday, a Downing Street spokesperson said that Starmer believes that Mandelson should be stripped of his peerage.
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Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
2 Feb. 2026
King Charles is also said to be sending royal warrants to remove Andrew’s peerage in relation to York, Inverness, and Killyleagh.
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Emma Specter,
Vogue,
30 Oct. 2025
The Duke of York is the traditional title for the sovereign's second son, and the elite peerage has a rich royal history.
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Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
Historical-romance authors love the British peerage system so much that bookstore shelves groan with many, many more dukedoms than the two dozen or so that actually existed in the United Kingdom of the 19th century.
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Karen Ostergren,
The Atlantic,
13 Oct. 2025
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Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
2 Feb. 2026
King Charles is also said to be sending royal warrants to remove Andrew’s peerage in relation to York, Inverness, and Killyleagh.
—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
30 Oct. 2025
The Duke of York is the traditional title for the sovereign's second son, and the elite peerage has a rich royal history.
—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
Historical-romance authors love the British peerage system so much that bookstore shelves groan with many, many more dukedoms than the two dozen or so that actually existed in the United Kingdom of the 19th century.
—
Karen Ostergren,
The Atlantic,
13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peerage
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Gustaf Lagerbielke, a 26-year-old center back, comes from a line of nobility, particularly Counts, in his home country.
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This piece of jewelry, worn by Princess Elisabeth, was a wedding gift from the Belgian nobility to Mathilde on the occasion of her wedding in 1999.
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Prior to Voyager, Phillips was a successful theater actor born to Broadway royalty — his parents ran a popular steakhouse in the heart of New York’s theater district.
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As an artist, Swift may need to evaluate royalties, intellectual property rights, touring income and control over her music catalog.
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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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Grammer will play Lord Fairfax, the unofficial leader of the Virginia gentry who has a complicated relationship to young George Washington as both his crucial mentor and as the father of his romantic rival.
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Steinbeck creates a microcosm of American society, where disability, gender, race and class are all represented and shaped by an economic hierarchy.
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The comments sorted themselves into camps, each revealing something interesting about how our society has come to think about motherhood, sacrifice and raising children.
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Before the yuppie era, a certain staid gentility prevailed.
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But his natural gentility is tough to dress down.
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“Peerage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peerage. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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