emir

variants or amir also ameer

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Recent Examples of emir Secretary of State Marco Rubio and emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha today. Nbc News, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025 Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the Qatari emir and prime minister in Doha on Tuesday, emphasizing Washington's desire for Qatar to remain engaged in mediation efforts aimed at securing the release of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and ultimately disarming the group. Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025 The president also spoke to the emir and prime minister of Qatar and thanked them for their support and friendship to our country. Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025 It is anticipated that Trump will sit with Infantino, senior officials from PSG and Chelsea, and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, whom the president met in Doha in May. Elias Burke, New York Times, 12 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for emir
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Noun
  • Edis, chief of the Landon family office and a protégé of its founder, the late swashbuckling billionaire Timothy Landon, who’s legendary as the chief political advisor to his military school chum, the sultan of Oman, notes that Swain gives Houlihan Lokey an extra edge.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Once the residence of sultans, this 17th-century landmark in Istanbul now invites discerning travelers to experience imperial grandeur infused with contemporary touches.
    Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Nineteen thousand resident white loyalists also supplemented British troops, as did at least eight thousand Irishmen and more than thirty thousand soldiers loaned to the king by princes in the German states.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Markle’s video showed the prince and her friend, Kelly McKee Zajfen, watching the end of the game as the Dodgers clinched back-to-back World Series titles.
    Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Following the Qianlong Garden, museum officials said Yangxindian (Hall of Mental Cultivation), the residence and administrative office for Qing emperors, is also expected to reopen this year after completing restoration work that started in 2018.
    Fred He, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Last year, at the age of eighty-six, Hopkins appeared as the Roman emperor Vespasian on TV, in Those About to Die, the thrust of his performance being to treat the show’s title with scorn.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Instead, these rather daring verses were composed by a Hieronymite nun for her beloved vicereine, the wife of the Spanish king’s representative in New Spain.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • That may in itself pose an ongoing risk to the monarchy's reputation if the public feel Andrew is still being protected by the king.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • His most important client, during a fifty-year career, was an empress, but tsarinas, society mavens, actresses, and courtesans all came to rely on his expertise.
    Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
  • There is only one queen at a time and should two reign, they are considered mother-daughter empresses.
    Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • In 2015, Girls actress Allison Williams traversed the New York City subway system dressed as Belle from Beauty and the Beast (1991), looking uncannily similar to the princess.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • As the two start to fall for each other, things get complicated when Huntley discovers Victoria is a princess.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Similarly, the scale, scope and depth of the AI revolution will also compel the group practice leaders, health system executives, private equity satraps and all others who now pull the strings on so many physicians to adapt to the democratization of medical knowledge.
    Michael L. Millenson, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
  • The ranks of the leadership are staffed, in large measure, with satraps and mediocrities.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • During the shah’s reign, filmmakers wrapped their civic appraisals in allegory, like Dariush Mehrjui’s 1969 Iranian New Wave classic, The Cow, about how a cow’s death spins its owner into unhinged chaos.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In the course of human events — at the courts of tsars, sultans, kaisers, shahs and the like — fealty has usually trumped expertise.
    Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2025

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