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Recent Examples of palatine
Allison Stanger, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Noun
During the Thirty Years’ War, military enterprisers included such figures as Ernst von Mansfeld, who raised an army for the elector palatine, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, who offered his services to Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman emperor.
—Allison Stanger, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for palatine
Adjective
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The palatial, cortijo-style main house, with its own chapel and 17th-century stone tower, is a pleasure palace with a pool, frontón court, stables, clay-pigeon shooting platform—and nearly 30 acres of orange and olive trees.—
Zoë Dare Hall,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Its interior will boast the world's highest observation point, as well as a luxury hotel, office space, and palatial apartments.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The aesthetic combines mountain luxury with a minimalist design, featuring plush couches, sumptuous blankets, and furnishings that incorporate natural elements to deepen your connection with the surrounding landscape.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Jan. 2026
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Bieber isn’t the only one sporting this sumptuous shade of blue on her nails either, some of our favorite nail artists have hopped on it too—plus, blue in all its shades is all over the runways.—
Irene Coltrinari,
Vogue,
23 Jan. 2026
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Shawnee has a special permit carved out for Frankie, a capuchin monkey that’s lived in a pet store for nearly two decades.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
16 Dec. 2025
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The animals sent back included 11 lemurs, an albino Burmese python, giraffes, a pack of sheep, a pair of sacred ibises, two llamas, tamarins, a kookaburra, a gibbon, capuchins, several parrots, three ground hornbills, three cockatoos, a serval, a Poitou donkey, and a macaw.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
27 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The auction house leaves behind its more cloistered Madison Avenue home for airy galleries in an 80-foot glass atrium, as well as an opulent neoclassical rotunda in the historic Steinway Hall.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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Empress Eugénie’s pearl and diamond tiara and her bodice front knot are here in all their splendor, except even more opulent, if that’s even possible.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Rather than betray alienation, her surviving correspondence—mostly to Cassandra—talks of fabrics, caps and pelisses (a type of woman’s cloak)—
Robert Garnett,
WSJ,
14 July 2017
Adjective
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Among thrash metal’s Big Four, which includes Metallica, Megadeth Slayer, and Anthrax, Megadeth have always stood out for having superb instrumentalists throughout its career.—
Quentin Thane Singer,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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And somehow, all that wackiness has coalesced into a superb and consistently funny TV show, which made USA TODAY's list of the 10 best TV shows of 2025.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
22 Jan. 2026
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Enoch confronts the celestial hosts, all wearing capes of swastika red under an oppressive horizon of jutting lightning and glaring orange mountains.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Fully embrace the cape coat trend this year.—
Amanda Le,
InStyle,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Queen Camilla’s monochrome attire and choice of mantilla fall under papal protocol, requiring women who meet with the pope to wear black and a veil, symbolizing respect and modesty.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
23 Oct. 2025
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Camilla, 78, followed tradition with her black ensemble, wearing a silk dress by Fiona Clare and a mantilla by Philip Treacy.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Palatine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palatine. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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