peer
Example Sentences
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Leadbeater has said the majority of peers back her proposals but that a small group of opponents were trying to talk the bill out, also known as filibustering.
From BBC
Speaking to the BBC in Shanghai, Sir Keir said a travel ban and other sanctions "no longer apply" to those parliamentarians, which includes four Conservative MPs and two peers in the House of Lords.
From BBC
The stock moved even higher on Jan. 28, when a raft of earnings served as a reassuring signal to Micron and its peers in the memory-chip and data-storage markets.
From Barron's
“Poland should be the poster child of the European convergence machine,” he added, referring to the EU’s push to help developing economies catch up to their higher-income peers.
Eurozone government bond yields rose, though not by as much as their U.S. peers.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
