emirate

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Recent Examples of emirate The emirate logged 143 super-prime sales collectively worth $2.5 billion, rising 39 percent by deal count and 27 percent by value compared with the prior quarter. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2026 One marquee project is a new theme park planned for the Middle Eastern emirate of Abu Dhabi. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026 The project marks a decisive shift in how the emirate plans to construct future homes. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026 When this contemporary art museum opens, along with Saadiyat Grove, a new residential and retail project, the Saadiyat Cultural District will become the emirate’s most desirable address. Clare Dight, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for emirate
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Also known as a Jodhpuri suit, the bandhgala originated in the principality of Rajasthani Jodhpur in the 16th century.
    Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Yoshi is arguably among the most upscale spots for Japanese cuisine in the principality.
    Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry said its systems intercepted and destroyed 10 drones over the capital, Riyadh, and the kingdom’s eastern region.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The kingdom built a pipeline stretching across the country during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s to prepare for exactly this kind of disruption.
    CBS News, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Dresses with empire silhouettes—that is, a high waist directly under the bust and a softly falling skirt that creates a romantic, almost fairytale-like drape—have become especially popular in the bridal market as a result.
    Madeline Dangmann, Glamour, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Emma Stone Emma Stone shimmered in a simple empire waist design with cap sleeves by one of her favorite fashion houses, Louis Vuitton.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • There was no foreseeable impediment to our messy but functional republic.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
  • After all, Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco, who led the overthrow of the republic and then ruled from 1939 until his death in 1975, still casts a long, and often painful, shadow.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • La Tour was born in Lorraine, a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1593, twenty-one years after Caravaggio, whose sensational combination of naturalism and theater, light and dark, formed him as a painter.
    Nicole Krauss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The Duchy of Cornwall, established in 1337 by King Edward III, is one of two royal duchies, a type of land management and financial investment firm that can carry the functions of a corporation or trust.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Hey, that guy is well into the public domain.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Despite its dangerous reputation, accidents in the main La Grave ski domain are extremely rare.
    Sergei Poljak, Outside, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • All of Mabel’s new forest friends—there are deer, rabbits, turtles, raccoons, and a singularly gloomy bear—bow down to a beaver sovereign, King George (Bobby Moynihan), a gregarious and naïve soul who embraces a humble, communal ideal of living.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Whatever their precise content, the blessings of liberty allow people to be something like sovereigns over their own lives.
    Cass Sunstein, Big Think, 5 Mar. 2026

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“Emirate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emirate. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.

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