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Recent Examples of seigneur
Gianfranco was every inch the grand seigneur but without the pretense.
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John Mariani,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
The Patriots have lost five of six to Bills uber-QB Josh Allen, the reigning signal-caller seigneur of the AFC East.
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Christopher L. Gasper,
BostonGlobe.com,
8 Jan. 2023
One is of course of George himself in gorgeous silver and velvet, a huge canvas that tested Lawrence’s skill in portraying him as a grand seigneur in the manner of the Sun King (see illustration on page 28).
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft,
The New York Review of Books,
28 May 2020
Sometime after the panel in Oslo, Searle was dishonorably discharged from his emeritus position at UC Berkeley for allegedly leveraging his branding as a genius to assert droit de seigneur and exploit, abuse, and assault a young woman.
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Wired,
20 Sep. 2019
John Mariani,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
The Patriots have lost five of six to Bills uber-QB Josh Allen, the reigning signal-caller seigneur of the AFC East.
—
Christopher L. Gasper,
BostonGlobe.com,
8 Jan. 2023
One is of course of George himself in gorgeous silver and velvet, a huge canvas that tested Lawrence’s skill in portraying him as a grand seigneur in the manner of the Sun King (see illustration on page 28).
—
Geoffrey Wheatcroft,
The New York Review of Books,
28 May 2020
Sometime after the panel in Oslo, Searle was dishonorably discharged from his emeritus position at UC Berkeley for allegedly leveraging his branding as a genius to assert droit de seigneur and exploit, abuse, and assault a young woman.
—
Wired,
20 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seigneur
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Terence had really identified very much with being the grand seignior.
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Pépin has been awarded a number of French and American accolades, including France’s highest civilian honor, becoming a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2004, and lifetime achievement awards from the James Beard Foundation (2005) and American Public Television (2015).
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The three-course lunch menu is exceptional value at €58 ($68), featuring locavore produce like delicate omble chevalier (Arctic char) line-fished in the deep icy waters of Lake Annecy, or a simple onion, cooked with a sweet almond cream, quince, and rosemary oil.
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Guy Montag burned libraries in Fahrenheit 451, and Don Quixote’s priest and barber burned the romances that turned the hidalgo mad.
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But all the nattering nabobs of negativism who’d normally have been concentrating on Maura’s catastrophic first term had to devote at least a little attention to recounting one of the Wu Klux Klan’s more embarrassing moments of 2025.
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Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.
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This was perhaps the greatest bifurcation of the labor force seen since the days of land barons.
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Cruise sports a thick Southern accent, a beer belly and thinning white hair (fashioned in an unconvincing combover) to play the oil baron whose company may have set off an ecological disaster that could also spark a nuclear war.
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The show revolves around a young man whose life spirals into terrifying events after receiving a mysterious book from an enigmatic sheikh according to promotional materials.
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The nearly $3 trillion UAE sovereign-wealth fund, of which more than half is controlled by the spy sheikh, offers an immense pot of money for venture capital.
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The two estranged princes – now fathers and husbands – have only seen one another a handful of times in the last four years.
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During his stay from July 7 to 11, the prince will carry out a series of charity engagements, and kick off the one-year countdown to the 2027 Invictus Games.
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The duke's Invictus Games countdown event takes place exactly one year before the 2027 games, which are slated to begin on July 10 of that year.
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The duke traditionally accompanies the monarch in the lead carriage of the Royal Procession, a custom that dates back to 1825, when the first Duke of Wellington rode alongside King George IV.
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“Seigneur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seigneur. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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