mandarins
- plural of mandarin.
Example Sentences
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Mandarins were the key class in the social and political hierarchy during times of stability in the more than two thousand years of Confucian dominance in China, from the second century BCE to 1911 CE.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Mandarins, pomelos, citrons, kumquats and papeda were likely main, original biological species.
From Salon • Feb. 13, 2023
The first book that changed my life five decades ago was The Mandarins.
From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2022
The Chinese enlightenment happened, but it was strictly a thinker’s enlightenment, where Mandarins never talked much to the manufacturers.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017
Some Mandarins even go the length of having their own players, who receive regular annual pay, and form part of the household.
