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grandee

[gran-dee] / grænˈdi /


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One reason, Europe’s grandees increasingly agree, is the persistence of 27 separate regulatory frameworks for issuing and buying securities.

From Barron's

An ethics and safety review board—a committee that would include the DeepMind founders and some external grandees—should be set up to dilute Google’s power over the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal

When nationally prominent figures die, members of China’s top leadership and retired party grandees send wreaths and, in certain cases, personally attend the funerals.

From The Wall Street Journal

An even more welcome addition to our already bulging shelves is the belated arrival of a largely complete studio discography of Britain’s greatest conductor, and certainly its most self-possessed: the musical grandee Sir Thomas Beecham.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ms. Cheever began to understand that his stories came at least partly from the tension between his private feelings of shame and the effort to maintain his respectability as a literary grandee and paterfamilias.

From The Wall Street Journal