prestige
Example Sentences
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Things like money, social prestige, family expectations, why, in the books they vanished like rainclouds, every time.
From Literature
He didn’t repudiate his warnings when they failed to pan out, yet didn’t lose his popularity or prestige.
He didn’t repudiate his warnings when they failed to pan out, yet didn’t lose his popularity or prestige.
Ehrlich’s knack for being not only wrong but 180 degrees in error cost him neither popularity—he appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” more than a dozen times—nor prestige in academia.
Serving on the Berkshire board probably carries more prestige than that of any other major company.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
