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aristocrat

[uh-ris-tuh-krat, ar-uh-stuh-] / əˈrɪs təˌkræt, ˈær ə stə- /


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Golden retrievers were bred by aristocrat Sir Dudley Marjoribanks, who wanted a gun dog suited to Scottish Highland terrain.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Feature film Madfabulous - which tells the story of an eccentric 19th Century Welsh aristocrat - leads the way at this year's Bafta Cymru awards with six nominations.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

When Alice Lockey, a well-read lady’s maid to an aristocrat, meets the bookish Charlie, a valet, the match seems meant to be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Depicting the singer as a Baroque aristocrat clad in contemporary designer fashion, the portrait helped propel González onto an international stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

The young aristocrat and his friend Gustave de Beaumont had been dispatched by their government in 1831 with the specific mission of examining America’s rumored-to-be-innovative prisons.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Among them was the academy’s annual summer party, themed after 18th-century Georgian pleasure gardens — Britain’s oil-lamp-lit outdoor venues where aristocrats, the newly rich and everyday revelers gathered to see, be seen and behave badly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The book is about colonisation and devastation, set against a backdrop of families left to die of starvation on estates owned by British aristocrats and landowners.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

If these aristocrats fall out of favor, look past accounting measures and consider paying what still looks like a high sticker price for that pedigree.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

One thing that may be surprising: The dividend aristocrats index has only a slight tilt to the red-hot energy sector.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

Two aristocrats are out horseback riding and one challenges the other to see which can come up with the larger number.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos


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