kingship

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Recent Examples of kingship Widely considered a victory lap for Lamar and his camp, the project was hailed as confirmation of his kingship. Preezy Brown, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2025 Argonaut is named after the famed argonauts of ancient Greek mythology, who sailed in the ship Argo in search of an artifact to restore their leader, Jason, to his rightful kingship. Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 24 Nov. 2025 The 12 main galleries trace Egypt's history from prehistory through the Greco-Roman era, exploring themes of society, kingship and belief. Ayat Al-Tawy, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2025 While waving away the responsibilities of kingship, Shrek can’t escape the responsibilities of fatherhood, as Fiona’s pregnant. Skyler Trepel September 1, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kingship
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Noun
  • During his presidency, the players successfully negotiated the current collective bargaining agreement, which runs through 2030.
    Mike Jones, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The Security Council meeting is taking place on the last day of the United Kingdom’s presidency and a day before the United States takes over the rotating presidency for the month of March.
    Edith M. Lederer, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • GDPs skyrocket; cities are powered by clean nuclear fusion; dictatorships fall across the world; humanity begins to colonize the stars.
    Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Those under occupation, dictatorship, persecution, and those experiencing genocide.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Eventually, the fighting commenced with a flurry of slapping, pushing, and grasping; sumo can look like brawling or ballet, a display of brute force or a mastery of martial-arts techniques that share their origins with judo and aikido.
    Joshua Hunt, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Other jewelers put the spotlight on their technical chops, expanding their mastery of traditional metalworking and gem-setting with new ideas or tools.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The keynote rebuttal typically goes to a rising star in the opposition party, and Spanberger secured one of the Democrats’ biggest wins last year, flipping Virginia’s governorship by a 15-point margin.
    Julia Terruso, Time, 25 Feb. 2026
  • And as his governorship winds down, the state’s Democratic Party seems to be moving leftward.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • But Burchett is promising to use his chairmanship to uncover further misconduct on Capitol Hill and will try to obtain the settlement case files kept by the Office of Compliance.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 26 Feb. 2026
  • And like any City Council committee chairmanship, the position comes with a budget to hire staff.
    Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • UConn lured him out of the transfer portal from Georgia to solidify its court generalship, so vital to the kind of offense Dan Hurley likes to run.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 10 Feb. 2026
  • At war, his brilliant generalship and loyal army enabled him to overcome the odds that threatened his victories.
    Paul Vanderbroeck, Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
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
  • After the leader of the Labour Party in Scotland joined those calls earlier this month, Starmer’s chief of staff and communications director quit, and his premiership teetered on the brink.
    ABC News, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The unfolding Mandelson scandal threatened to topple Starmer’s premiership, with the bitter fallout leading to the resignations of key advisers and growing calls from senior Labour Party figures for the British prime minister to step down.
    Peter Wilkinson, CNN Money, 23 Feb. 2026

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“Kingship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kingship. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.

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