peerages

plural of peerage

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Noun
  • The new deal will allow over 330,000 rights holders to receive royalties where their music is used on Audius across a broad territorial footprint, including sub-Saharan Africa and Asia Pacific.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Some examples of passive income include rental income, dividends, royalties, and online businesses.
    Melissa Houston, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Xi must know that old societies tend to be pacific and that China is getting old fast.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Then, five thousand or so years ago, after agriculture spread and prehistory gave way to history, hierarchies emerged, dividing our societies into groups—the socioeconomic élites and everyone else.
    Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Peerages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peerages. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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