nobles

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The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Fellowes, who created “Downton Abbey,” knows his nobles.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025

According to the American Kennel Club, Great Danes were developed once upon a time by German nobles to hunt ferocious wild boars, and they later became beloved protectors of their home and loved ones.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2024

It was documentary proof of the legitimacy of a reign, with evidence to show rebellious nobles about the promises they had made.

From BBC • May 2, 2024

In this way they could justify treating the Indigenous peoples in much the same ways they had been treated when the nobles displaced them from the commons.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz