king

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Recent Examples of king Also, maybe, Regan, the king’s poisonous middle daughter. Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025 Rafael Devers strolled into the clubhouse side-by-side with home run king Barry Bonds, a fellow left-handed slugger who San Francisco’s new big hitter has long admired from afar. Janie McCauley, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2025 However, many brands have options that range from twin to California king. Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 18 June 2025 The cushy king beds are topped with $23,000 mattresses from 100-year-old luxury Swedish label Duxiana. Katie Nanton, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for king
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Noun
  • Coffee magnate Prayudh Mahagitsiri’s wealth took a hit as his PM Group’s long-standing joint venture with Nestle ended.
    Phisanu Phromchanya, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • The island's first inhabitants were the Gabrielino Indigenous Peoples, and the island has changed ownership since the 1800s until purchased by chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Reuters — Vietnam will remove the death penalty for eight offenses from next month, including embezzlement and activities aimed at overthrowing the government, parliament said on Wednesday, sparing the life of a tycoon in a $12 billion fraud case.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 25 June 2025
  • Plenty of world leaders, business tycoons, and tech titans share their top reads every year.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Amid Warnings Tears as Amal Clooney Honors Girl Who Rejected 'Child Bride' Path The young prince was enthusiastically greeting royal fans at the start Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee celebrations when Charlotte reached over to pull his hand down.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • The prince had problems reaching Balmoral, as communication with the rest of the family was limited.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • The footage jumped between a struggling local township and its wealthy local lords, both equally besieged by epidemics of disease.
    Kambole Campbell, Variety, 10 June 2025
  • But before you were born, corridos were about Pancho Villa — not drug lords.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • After playing Lucius in Batman Begins, Freeman reprised his role of God in Evan Almighty, and appeared in The Bucket List, Invictus, Red and Lucy.
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 15 June 2025
  • So do East Avenue and Owen Almighty, who will start farther out.
    Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 4 May 2025
Noun
  • However, the long-reigning monarch never wore the Greville tiara in public, likely due to its significant connection to her late mother.
    Meredith Kile, People.com, 4 July 2025
  • The revolutionary focus was, and remains today, on the rights of the individual — not the state, not the monarch, not a corporate entity, not a particular economic or social class, and certainly not the military.
    Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The president campaigned fervently last year on the promise of mass deportations and appointed Tom Homan as his border czar to execute his agenda.
    Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
  • Border czar Tom Homan has voiced similar concerns, saying Sunday that 1,272 Iranian nationals were released into the U.S. during the Biden administration.
    Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • The distillery and gardens remain an iconic part of the town of Rothes, providing a glimpse into both the heritage of whisky-making and the lifestyle of 19th-century Scotland and its whisky barons.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • His wife, known as Livy, was the sheltered daughter of a coal baron.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 May 2025

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“King.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/king. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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