aristocracy

After this, there will be a lot of going back and forth across the Channel; crimes of the aristocracy; Darnay’s own Big Secret revealed; more trials, more imprisonments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

“There is a huge crisis of Anglo Jewry,” says Mr. Montefiore, 61, a scion of Anglo-Jewish aristocracy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

One of the signatories on the documents was a professional polo player - apt given that Dame Jilly was known for writing about polo-playing members of the aristocracy.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

Dior designer Jonathan Anderson delivered his vision Wednesday of "today's aristocracy" in his second menswear show for the brand in Paris, mixing new gender-mixed creations with house symbols.

From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026

They were forming a new aristocracy, a new breed of glittering men, and Chamberlain had come to crush it.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

From this combination a meritocracy emerged, supplanting aristocracies in lands where feudalism had been weakened by progress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

After 500 BCE, a compromise government called oligarchy tended to replace both aristocracies and tyrannies.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

Men’s Final Four berths, of course, come to basketball aristocracies in Lexington, Ky., or Durham or Chapel Hill, N.C., or, of late, suburban Philadelphia.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2019

We broke the old aristocracies, declaring ourselves entitled not by bloodline, but endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. 

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2015

In the Adams formulation, aristocracies were to society as the passions were to the individual personality, permanent fixtures susceptible to disciplined containment and artful channeling, but never altogether removable.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis