as in tycoon
a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field
a neighborhood in which the city's merchant princes built palaces that shamelessly celebrated their wealth
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Recent Examples of prince
The tourists naturally ignore this advice, and serve themselves right up to the dark prince.
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Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2025
Once anchored to a prince, a courtier’s stock tends to rise and fall with that royal.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Watch Prince Louis Chat and Charm Behind the Scenes of His 7th Birthday Portrait Shoot in Rare Video
The prince also spent time with some of the young people helped by Mentivity and took part in some of the activities with them.
—Simon Perry, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Read Next World 4,300-year-old tomb of a prince — with a false door — found in Egypt.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
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Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2025
Once anchored to a prince, a courtier’s stock tends to rise and fall with that royal.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Watch Prince Louis Chat and Charm Behind the Scenes of His 7th Birthday Portrait Shoot in Rare Video
The prince also spent time with some of the young people helped by Mentivity and took part in some of the activities with them.
—Simon Perry, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Read Next World 4,300-year-old tomb of a prince — with a false door — found in Egypt.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prince
Noun
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The man who once mocked piety had become a moral touchstone; the scold of American pretensions now dined with tycoons.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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Some real estate tycoons, who are actively developing, have to fret over the cost of building materials.—
Dan Alexander,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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The owner, a local steel magnate, had a clear philosophy of investing in players with untapped potential.—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Listen to this article A dental magnate and the owner of the nation’s largest personal injury law firm are among the financial backers of the effort hoping to lure Major League Baseball to Orlando.—
Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2025
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On Tuesday, April 29, the zoo released a statement sharing how keepers feed the vulture chick born on Feb. 25, who is the first king vulture hatched at the zoo in three decades.—
Moná Thomas,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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The king traveled to Italy the following month with Queen Camilla for a four-day state visit that saw Charles deliver an address to the Italian parliament.—
William James,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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Should formal proclamations even be a thing that’s expected from celebrities in the year of our lord Lesbian Jesus 2025?—
Sam Manzella,
Them.,
23 Apr. 2025
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The agent and the drug lords Camarena, who was born in Mexico but raised in Calexico, was 37 years old on Feb. 7, 1985, when five gunmen abducted him off the street in Guadalajara near the U.S. Consulate.—
Alex Riggins,
Mercury News,
30 Mar. 2025
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As with the European monarchs or the Roman emperors, the success of the Chinese emperors varied considerably, with some reigning over peace and prosperity and some seeming to preside over - or even instigate - tumult and war.—
Frank Lavin,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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King Charles can't get involved in Prince Harry's security woes: author Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine and author of ‘My Mother and I,’ explains why the monarch is too exhausted to deal with his younger son’s ongoing court battle.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
2 May 2025
Noun
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The first is about Sir Gawain, nephew of King Arthur, whose rivals include both rebellious barons at home and pagan Saxons invading from abroad.—
Alan Yuhas,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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While cattle barons may seem like a throwback, their spirits still rule in Big Sky Country.—
Jim Robbins,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Mar. 2025
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Archaeologists have now found the first direct osteological evidence: the skeleton of a Roman gladiator who encountered a wild animal in the arena, most likely a lion, based on bite marks evident on the pelvic bone, according to a paper published in the journal PLoS ONE.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2025
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It’s got about half the caffeine of a cup of coffee and a nice coconut flavor thanks to a bit of powdered coconut milk, and, importantly for a mushroom coffee, not too much fungi flavor despite the inclusion of lion’s mane, reishi, and cordyceps.—
Alaina Chou,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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The bitcoin price has smashed $100,000 per bitcoin for the first time since February, with traders surprised by U.S. president Donald Trump’s crypto czar David Sacks issuing a rare bitcoin price prediction.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
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Warren also sent a letter to the OGE questioning a White House waiver granted to David Sacks, the White House AI and crypto czar.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
7 May 2025
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“Prince.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prince. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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