grandee
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The prime minister wanted to send this Labour grandee to Washington.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Starmer has apologized for hiring the Labour Party grandee, and Mandelson has quit the House of Lords—the British Parliament’s upper chamber—amid a police investigation into whether he shared market-sensitive information with the financier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
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 ● Oct. 17, 2025
The former Olympic athlete, who has died at the age of 84, had an urbane manner and "grandee" style, although it belied more humble origins.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
He dressed impeccably and had the manners of a grandee.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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