kingship

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Recent Examples of kingship 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 At its founding, Rome was a kingship, but when subsequent kings became tyrannical, the Roman people overthrew the monarchy and established a republic, which had a remarkable history and lasted almost 500 years. Vickie B. Sullivan, The Conversation, 5 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for kingship
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Noun
  • Ronald Reagan is remembered as a ferocious Cold Warrior, but spent much of his presidency being accused by his party’s hawks of going soft on Moscow.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • At the same point in their presidency, 42 percent of Americans approved of former President Joe Biden favorably and 53 percent approved of former President Barack Obama.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Minister Kabawat is a member of the Christian minority and a longtime member of the opposition to the former dictatorship of Bashar Al-Assad that was defeated by Al-Shara in late 2024.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • After the fall of Hungary’s Communist dictatorship, dozens of decommissioned monuments were sent to Budapest’s Memento Park, including the boots from an enormous statue of Stalin, which had been torn down by irate crowds.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Santa Margarita’s boys water polo team showed its mastery of the shot on Wednesday.
    Dan Albano, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who built a global following through his accessible teaching style and blitz chess mastery, died unexpectedly at 29, his family announced Monday.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The California governorship has a track record of acting as a steppingstone to the White House with two former governors of the state, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, going on to serve as president.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Newsom’s governorship is drawing to a close.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Under Do’s board chairmanship, CalOptima CEO Michael Hunn’s pay was increased by about 50% in 2022 to $841,500 a year.
    Claire Wang, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Dingell lost the vote and the chairmanship.
    Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 7 Oct. 2025
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 30 Oct. 2025.

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