Thesaurus results for KINGDOMS

kingdoms

noun

plural of kingdom

as in realms

a region of activity, knowledge, or influence a studio head who was once the undisputed ruler of the kingdom of Hollywood

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Recent Examples of kingdoms Over the course of decades, the Nationalists clashed with the Communist Party led by future dictator Mao Zedong, the Japanese Empire (which controlled the formerly Chinese island of Taiwan), and various warlords seeking to carve out their own kingdoms amid the chaos. —

Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026 Most kingdoms don’t fall without a battle. —

Noah White, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026 Attacks on other Gulf states Qatar and Bahrain also came under attack, piercing the kingdoms’ polished image as luxurious havens in an unstable region. —

Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026 But these are relatively new arrivals on Earth; all three kingdoms are less than one billion years old. —

Big Think, 17 Feb. 2026 The burial ground dates back to a significant time in English history, when regional kingdoms started to form and consolidate power. —

Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026 The early Iron Age kingdoms of Neo-Assyria, Egypt, Israel and Judah, and their relationship to the Phoenician cities, underlie our understanding of these events. —

Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026 From enchanted kingdoms to the streets of today, members of the Art Directors Guild craft the environments that bring film, television, and theater to life. —

Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 7 Jan. 2026 But the profitable slave trade continued, crucial to the colonial order that the leaders of these and other European kingdoms had decided to build. —

Laurent Dubois, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026

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Stanton’s disdain for immigrants led her into emergent realms of pseudoscience that would transform into eugenics; her rhetoric about women strayed from the principle of gender equality into essentialist ideas about women’s feminine specialness.

— Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
New realms would stop appearing; the intensities of the forces would stabilize; and gravity would turn out to make perfect sense after all.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2026