kingship

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Recent Examples of kingship The galleries are categorized according to three themes — religion, kingship, and society — and divided into historical eras: Predynastic, the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, the Late Kingdom, Ptolemaic (Greek) Egypt, and the Roman period. Kate McMahon, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2025 In all this, Jesus was retrieving and modeling some of the remarkable kingship themes from Israel’s own scriptures. N.t. Wright, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024 Each period touches on three themes: society, kingship, and beliefs. Nada El Sawy, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Dec. 2024 That’s the only boring nonsense about kingship is that you’re supposed to have an heir. Marc Malkin, Variety, 15 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for kingship
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Noun
  • The limited series follows the life of President James Garfield (Michael Shannon), including his unplanned bid for presidency, his brief time as the 20th president of the United States and his assassination at the hands of Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen).
    Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Chavez died in 2013, at which point Maduro assumed the presidency.
    Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • His socialist dictatorship, hostile to human life, crushed Venezuelans’ freedoms for years.
    Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 7 Jan. 2026
  • One of his uncles had been part of the resistance to the right-wing military dictatorship that controlled Greece between 1967 and 1974.
    Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The lack of cutting-room material serves as a testament to Don Trip and Starlito’s innate chemistry and mastery of their creative process, which continues to yield praiseworthy results more than a decade after their first pairing.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • To say anything else, many feminists now argue, would be to infantilize her, to subordinate her—to the state, to moralism—rather than acknowledge her mastery of her own body.
    S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • However, the allegations of widespread fraud and mismanagement during Newsom’s governorship is not confined to those on the starboard side of the political balance beam.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • However, the allegations of widespread fraud and mismanagement during Newsom’s governorship is not confined to those on the starboard side of the political balance beam.
    Dan Walters, Oc Register, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Sources told the Herald FitzGerald was at one point in line for Ways and Means committee chair under a potential Coletta Zapata presidency, and was offered the same budget committee chairmanship to flip to Worrell.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The board voted unanimously on his chairmanship.
    Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Filmmaking is blind instinct, petty calculations, smooth generalship, daydreaming, pig-headedness, grace, bluff, risk.
    Susan Sontag, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2025
  • While his questionable generalship would be memorialized in a long poem by Alfred Tennyson, his other legacy is giving the world the sweater named after his title.
    Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • An additional $5 million will fund a deanship, $3 million will support a chair in biomedical engineering, and $5 million will establish a research fund for faculty fellowships, emphasizing cross-disciplinary collaboration.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • More plans about the future of her premiership are expected to be unveiled in a major policy speech later this week, according to AP.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Her premiership could thus end up being short-lived — much like that of her predecessor, Shigeru Ishiba, who was in office for a year.
    Arata Yamamoto, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Kingship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kingship. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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