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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emirs
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American vacationers, Emirati princes, French fashion designers, British socialites and new-money Chinese.
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Earlier this year, Quinn pounced on the opportunity to cast Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams as star-crossed fae princes from feuding kingdoms who (spoiler) have been knocking boots in secret.
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The bell’s pyramidal face is decorated with depictions of deceased kings and queens, and its toll was believed to invoke ancestral spirits.
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Little is yet known about the jewelry and its significance, but Gordon believes that the jewelry was once worn by the kings and queens of an ancient Khmer Empire that spanned Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, and existed for hundreds of years.
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These new rulers were keen to sell themselves as legitimate successors to the emperors, and there was considerable continuity during this turbulent period.
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The second film stars Paul Mescal as Lucius, the son of Maximus, who returns to Rome as a prisoner and is trained to be a gladiator for Macrinus, a former slave played by Denzel Washington, who has plans to overthrow the twin emperors.
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This is revealed as Ali, in the present day, is trying to help Rue navigate her truly untenable position at the center of rival drug lords.
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Ser Duncan the Tall, played by Peter Claffey, sits atop a horse as the lords of Westeros look down at him.
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Some have come to believe that the three women in the fountain represent three Purépecha princesses of legend, Atzimba, Eréndira and Tzetzangari.
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The two princesses are as close as ever, if their interactions at June 13’s Trooping the Colour are any indication.
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Woody and Buzz have survived sadistic neighbors, evil toys and tyrannical daycare rulers.
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Jones said Shiite rulers in several South Asian kingdoms sponsored processions and other commemorations of Hussein’s martyrdom, helping turn them into public events that drew wider audiences.
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Biden put this sentiment into action by working with Netanyahu despite serious moral and political failures in Gaza, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on NATO expansion, and with Gulf potentates on the region’s security architecture.
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For generations, the Sea had been the lifeblood of the Karakalpak people, who lived as seminomadic pastoralists under various rulers, including khanates, tsars, the USSR, and now independent Uzbekistan.
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Büttner, who is not Jewish, serves as one of 15 state antisemitism czars in Germany, which also has a federal antisemitism commissioner, Felix Klein.
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“Emirs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emirs. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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