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Recent Examples of princeling
Some princelings were profoundly disillusioned and decided on another life choice, which was to have fun and make money.
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Ann Scott Tyson,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 Dec. 2025
Since many of his fellow princelings served in the senior ranks, however, Xi was better attuned to the politics within the military.
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Jonathan A. Czin,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Aug. 2025
This innately good-hearted princeling is the only compelling character.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Dec. 2024
Urie, a Drama Desk award winner, expertly plays the princeling as a well-meaning, but woefully awkward nerd who is hopelessly smitten from the moment Winnifred hauls herself onstage covered in leeches.
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EW.com,
13 Aug. 2024
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Ann Scott Tyson,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 Dec. 2025
Since many of his fellow princelings served in the senior ranks, however, Xi was better attuned to the politics within the military.
—
Jonathan A. Czin,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Aug. 2025
This innately good-hearted princeling is the only compelling character.
—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Dec. 2024
Urie, a Drama Desk award winner, expertly plays the princeling as a well-meaning, but woefully awkward nerd who is hopelessly smitten from the moment Winnifred hauls herself onstage covered in leeches.
—
EW.com,
13 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for princeling
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African prince Akeem is trading palaces, from his lavish kingdom to Queens in search of a woman who loves him for him.
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Daeron Targaryen Daeron Targaryen, otherwise known as Daeron the Drunkard, is a bookish and melancholy Targaryen prince known for his prophetic dreams.
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Cruise sports a thick Southern accent, a beer belly and thinning white hair (fashioned in an unconvincing combover) to play the oil baron whose company may have set off an ecological disaster that could also spark a nuclear war.
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Lipstye and others worried that Shelter Island was becoming a place dominated by wealthy barons who weren’t necessarily invested in the community — a place, in short, like the South Fork.
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The duke traditionally accompanies the monarch in the lead carriage of the Royal Procession, a custom that dates back to 1825, when the first Duke of Wellington rode alongside King George IV.
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Enmeshed in scandal, the former duke and duchess of York have practically vanished from public view – and so have the queen's dinky golden furballs.
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In the book, Benedict falls for Sophie Beckett, the daughter of an earl who’s been hidden away from the Ton and forced to work as a housemaid by her spiteful stepmother.
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With James' support, George became an earl, a marquess and ultimately a duke (a rarity for nonroyals).
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Connie is married to a baronet, Clifford, who has been made impotent by a war wound, and Mellors is the gamekeeper on Clifford’s estate, Wragby.
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The iconic museum attracts many thanks to its various exhibits and extensive art collection of roughly 9,000 objects belonging to Sir William Holbourne, the fifth baronet of Menstrie.
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Visitors had to make their way down a narrow private drive that wound through 650 acres of woods and fields to find the viscount’s villa, but that didn’t stop an enterprising female photographer from taking the photos from a public road 1,500 feet away using a telephoto lens.
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Under the law, the remaining earls, viscounts and dukes who inherited their seats in the chamber along with their aristocratic titles will leave Parliament for good when the current session concludes this spring.
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“Princeling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/princeling. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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