Example Sentences

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In both incarnations, he strikes the reader as, above all, a gentleman, in a particularly American, nonaristocratic sense of the word.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2021

The nonaristocratic, egalitarian bent of the Dutch also gave society on Manhattan a uniquely upwardly mobile character, distinct from that of, say, Boston.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2014