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Recent Examples of emirate
Last week saw the emirate host the 18th edition of Art Dubai, a key pillar in the region’s cultural economy and the main commercial art fair in the Middle East.
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Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 2 May 2025
By Thomas Buckley, Bloomberg Walt Disney Co. announced plans for its first theme park in the Middle East, a sprawling resort property in the emirate of Abu Dhabi.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
Best Restaurants The most popular cuisines in Abu Dhabi reflects the emirate's diverse cultural influences, with Middle Eastern and Arab flavors taking center stage.
—Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2025
For his part, bin Laden declined the public merger and suggested that Zubayr downsize from a state to an emirate, and do so quietly.
—Nelly Lahoud, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2021
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Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 2 May 2025
By Thomas Buckley, Bloomberg Walt Disney Co. announced plans for its first theme park in the Middle East, a sprawling resort property in the emirate of Abu Dhabi.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
Best Restaurants The most popular cuisines in Abu Dhabi reflects the emirate's diverse cultural influences, with Middle Eastern and Arab flavors taking center stage.
—Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2025
For his part, bin Laden declined the public merger and suggested that Zubayr downsize from a state to an emirate, and do so quietly.
—Nelly Lahoud, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emirate
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The sultanate has repeatedly blocked or opted out of any Saudi moves toward deeper GCC security, political, or economic integration.—
Rory Miller,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Oct. 2017
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Oman’s foreign minister served as an interlocutor between the two sides at talks last weekend in Muscat, the sultanate’s capital.—
Jon Gambrell and Nasser Karimi,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2025
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Last year, hometown hero Charles Leclerc took the victory in the principality.—
Kanzah Maktoum,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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Rival principalities, contesting ethnicities/nationalities, and at least three versions of Christianity (Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian), have roiled the hodgepodge.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Mar. 2022
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More than translation Spanish Jews who refused to convert in 1492, meanwhile, had been forced into exile and barred from the kingdom’s colonies.—
Flora Cassen,
The Conversation,
27 June 2025
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Over the course of 12 episodes and a sequel special, viewers see the decimation of a kingdom at the hand of a flesh-eating virus, and survivors can only fend off the undead with armor, swords, bows, and arrows.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
26 June 2025
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The empire has been built on one- or two-day deliveries, real-time tracking and an almost unrestricted return and refund policy—even putting the platform's own sellers in check.—
David Barberá Costarrosa,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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The feds allege that the tens of millions of dollars Combs made building the Bad Boy Records empire funded a criminal enterprise designed to cater to his every desire.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
23 June 2025
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In the long term, the collapse of that pillar of regime stability could weaken the edifice of the Islamic republic itself.—
The Editors,
National Review,
24 June 2025
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While Iran’s military capabilities have been degraded by punishing Israeli air strikes that began a week and a half ago, the Islamic republic was able to launch missiles at a U.S. base in Qatar on Monday.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
23 June 2025
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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
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The duchy is also partnering with local organizations to address homelessness, a key focus of his royal work in recent years.—
Stephanie Petit,
People.com,
30 May 2025
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That’s the domain of humans: the executive who senses when to pivot, the founder who intuits product-market fit before the metrics appear, the storyteller who moves a room, the leader who earns trust in a single conversation.—
Dror Berman,
Fortune,
27 June 2025
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So how exactly did the former domain of couples’ massages and cucumber water become the next frontier in medicine?—
Kelsey Eisen,
Robb Report,
26 June 2025
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Elizabeth also met Trump and Melania on July 13, 2018, at Windsor Castle, where the president made waves by walking in front of the monarch while inspecting the Guard of Honor, widely interpreted as a breach of protocol around the sovereign.—
Simon Perry,
People.com,
25 June 2025
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Rather, he was sent to the island of Elba, where he was allowed to retain the title of emperor and rule the island as a sovereign.—
Oona A. Hathaway,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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“Emirate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emirate. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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