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Speedskating has long operated feudally, with power passed down through family members and friendship among groups of people from the Midwest.

From Chicago Tribune • Feb. 24, 2013

Much more pertinent are figures from each of the three great East German Junker families, with their palatial residences and thousands of feudally worked acres.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2011

Well into his 70s, the gauntly handsome, gimlet-eyed centimillionaire rose near dawn to ride herd with his feudally loyal vaqueros, lassoing calves and searing them with the King Ranch's running-W brand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its locale is Brooklyn in the late 19th century, when the borough still had its own mayor and power-hungry chieftains scrabbled feudally over a kind of Irish fiefdom.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fact is that the opposition of high worth of personality to social efficiency is a product of a feudally organized society with its rigid division of inferior and superior.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John