as in aristocratic
of high birth, rank, or station
his blue-blooded in-laws and working class parents hit it off despite their different backgrounds
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Recent Examples of blue-blooded
Of course, that won’t stop orange-and-blue-blooded Knicks fans from teeming into the area near the team’s Manhattan arena to watch on bar TVs and big screens as their team — playing 1,580 miles (2,545 kilometers) away in San Antonio — looks to clinch its first title in 53 years.
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ABC News,
13 June 2026
Her blue-blooded husband is a silver fox (Hugh Grant) or an Adonis (Alexander Skarsgård).
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Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
The recruiting stars attached to a player’s name do not guarantee success any more than a coach’s blue-blooded bonafides ensure his greatness.
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Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
8 Jan. 2026
Yasmin exited finance altogether, embracing her destiny as the socialite bride-to-be of blue-blooded aristocrat Henry Muck (Kit Harington).
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Alison Herman,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
So just more of these blue-blooded programs down there.
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Katie Campione,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
The official khipu experts would have been born to blue-blooded families and raised for positions of importance.
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ArsTechnica,
14 Aug. 2025
ABC News,
13 June 2026
Her blue-blooded husband is a silver fox (Hugh Grant) or an Adonis (Alexander Skarsgård).
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Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
The recruiting stars attached to a player’s name do not guarantee success any more than a coach’s blue-blooded bonafides ensure his greatness.
—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
8 Jan. 2026
Yasmin exited finance altogether, embracing her destiny as the socialite bride-to-be of blue-blooded aristocrat Henry Muck (Kit Harington).
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Alison Herman,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
So just more of these blue-blooded programs down there.
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Katie Campione,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
The official khipu experts would have been born to blue-blooded families and raised for positions of importance.
—
ArsTechnica,
14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blue-blooded
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The Sound and The Fury Told by four narrators in a stream of consciousness writing style, this 1929 story describes the downfall of a wealthy Southern aristocratic family, the Compsons.
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Because of previous demand, over 20,000 people had been employed in buckle manufacture in the Birmingham area, but when this aristocratic fashion suddenly collapsed in 1786 on the eve of the French Revolution, their trade collapsed along with it.
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The idea that, rather than taking your phone out of your pocket to open the Soundcore app to get all the settings, is a noble one, but it's replaced by taking your carry case out of your pocket, unlocking it, and then getting to all the settings.
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So did his friendly rival, John Adams, who wrote of his dream ‘…to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them.
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“Blue-blooded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blue-blooded. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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