status
Example Sentences
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Everyone in “Picnic” wants something he or she cannot have: beauty, status, escape, love.
On your 65th birthday in Ecuador, you reach “tercera edad” status, which translates to “third age” — much kinder than “over the hill” or “out to pasture.”
From MarketWatch
She intended them “to cement her status as a sacrificial figure in the image of Socrates,” Ms. Stalnaker writes.
Legend has it that the royals are descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu and can trace their lineage back thousands of years, but their divine status was renounced after World War II.
From Barron's
Having been abandoned by his parents - his dad left before he was born and his mum when he was 14 - he could not prove his status.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
