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Recent Examples of duchy
However, the duchy passed on to Prince William when Charles became king on the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022.
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Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
Known collectively as Hessians, since most Germans hired by London to fight in America came from Hesse-Kassel, this contingent was largely from the small, impoverished duchy of Brunswick, whose ruling family had intermarried with the British royal family.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
That’s because prior to its 1861 unification, the Italian peninsula was fragmented into several kingdoms, duchies, and city-states, each with its landscape, culture, food, and grapes.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Eleanor Roosevelt, who had viewed Mesta’s appointment with disfavor, dropped into the duchy and changed her mind after seeing her in action.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
Known collectively as Hessians, since most Germans hired by London to fight in America came from Hesse-Kassel, this contingent was largely from the small, impoverished duchy of Brunswick, whose ruling family had intermarried with the British royal family.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
That’s because prior to its 1861 unification, the Italian peninsula was fragmented into several kingdoms, duchies, and city-states, each with its landscape, culture, food, and grapes.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Eleanor Roosevelt, who had viewed Mesta’s appointment with disfavor, dropped into the duchy and changed her mind after seeing her in action.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duchy
Noun
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In October, Andrew was stripped of his princely title, his dukedom, and a number of awards and honorifics.—
Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
2 Feb. 2026
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However, the scandal surrounding King Charles' brother, the former Prince Andrew — who was stripped of his dukedom as well as his other royal titles, including prince, in October 2025 — has led some to believe that the York title is tainted and won't be reassigned in the future.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
29 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Monaco's population of 38,000 is heavily Catholic and multinational, with only a fifth of the population actually citizens of the principality.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Monaco’s population of 38,000 is heavily Catholic and multinational, with only a fifth of the population actually citizens of the principality.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Yet the man currently in charge of the kingdom, the one who has added two championships of his own to the university coffers, is struggling with the old vocabulary in this very modern-day college athletics world.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2026
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And 34 years after Euro Disney became a punchline, a brand-new kingdom opened in the fields east of Paris — for the first time in forever.—
Thomas Adamson,
Fortune,
29 Mar. 2026
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After six months of backpacking, Martha was feeling very Taoist, very detached, just a big naked eyeball wandering around, absorbing all the astonishing things there were to see at the frayed edges of a defunct feudal empire.—
Cassandra Neyenesch,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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For nearly 30 years, this table served as the primary research and development lab for a food empire.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Her death exposed to the world a reality that Iranian women have faced and fought for since 1979, when the country transformed into an Islamic republic with religious law severely restricting women.—
Laurie Perez,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Under this republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Mar. 2026
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The first round of talks Feb. 6 were held in Oman, a sultanate on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, and were indirect.—
Jamey Keaten,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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After the Cold War ended, ASEAN expanded to include Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, as well as the tiny sultanate of Brunei, increasing the salience of Southeast Asia as a geopolitical entity.—
SUSANNAH PATTON,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Sep. 2025
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The sovereign's sisters, Princesses Caroline and Stephanie, stood side by side.—
Séraphine Roger,
Vanity Fair,
28 Mar. 2026
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The hope was that the visit, the first by a British sovereign in nearly two decades, would help smooth fractured relations between the two nations.—
Harriet Marsden,
TheWeek,
18 Mar. 2026
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Mamdani didn't take kindly to the Nassau County executive's incursion into his domain, CBS News New York's Marcia Kramer reported.—
Marcia Kramer,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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Technical fluency without domain fluency produces impressive demos and disappointing results.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Duchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duchy. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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