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Recent Examples of Synonyms for principalities
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Discovering a site like this allows archaeologists to further understand the culture and society of early medieval England, when the country was fragmented into several kingdoms but rulers like Offa were beginning to unify it and Alfred the Great was fighting off Viking invaders.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026 -
The burial ground dates back to a significant time in English history, when regional kingdoms started to form and consolidate power.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Test your knowledge of sports soundtracks, entertainment empires and more in this week's American Culture Quiz.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Prosperous empires throughout history have suffered failures born from complacency.—
Jamie Holmes,
Twin Cities,
22 Jan. 2026
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Abu Dhabi is the biggest by landmass of the seven emirates making up the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the second most populous after Dubai, while its main city is both the capital of the emirate and the wider UAE.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
8 Jan. 2026
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Several countries that once abolished their monarchies—including Spain, Cambodia, and Britain (under Oliver Cromwell)—later restored them as constitutional monarchies.—
Karim Sadjadpour,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2026
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First, that monarchies are inherently corrupt.—
Dan Snyder,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Moreover, sociology is one of the best empirical fields for interrogating the consequences of different values, for how ideas get built into institutions, for how social networks operate across domains.—
Wendy Nelson Espeland,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
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This pattern is visible across domains.—
Alejandro Reyes,
Washington Post,
3 Feb. 2026
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And the reason for that is that the default data and the default experience does not coincide with the ratings that the ratings agencies attribute to African sovereigns.—
Harvard Business Review,
Harvard Business Review,
13 Nov. 2025
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Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, has similarly dropped into deep curtsies when meeting other sovereigns on trips abroad.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Principalities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/principalities. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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