aristocracy
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Upon his arrival in London, Mai became something of a celebrity among the aristocracy, and was welcomed by King George III.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Describing himself as a Catholic from the impoverished aristocracy and an entrepreneur, he says it would offend against both his ethics and his business sense to exclude people from the banquets.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
But “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is less concerned about the aristocracy than what life is like for smallfolk like Dunk, an orphan who spent his early childhood scraping by in Flea Bottom.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026
In medieval England, venison with its gamey taste was highly prized by the aristocracy.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
Peasants were people who were forced into poverty when the aristocracy took over all the land they had once used.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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
This level of self-regard in a writer and thinker as justifiably exalted as Smith may explain why our nation is turning on reading: aristocracies breed resentment among the proles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
Our ancestors were fleeing autocracies, aristocracies and they were fleeing the unpredictability of the law that comes from an aristocracy or a dictatorship.
From Salon ● May 18, 2024
As Wooldridge says, Enlightenment thinkers, aiming to match “talent to opportunity and knowledge to power,” stressed the difference between natural aristocracies of talents and artificial aristocracies of breeding and inheritance.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021
Their many societies had developed rigid social and economic class structures in which wealth and power were concentrated among monarchies, aristocracies, and the Catholic Church.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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