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Recent Examples of principality
Monaco’s princess brides leave their bouquets at the Sainte-Dévote Chapel dedicated to the principality’s patron saint.
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Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 11 Apr. 2026
Monaco's population of 38,000 is heavily Catholic and multinational, with only a fifth of the population actually citizens of the principality.
—CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
Monaco’s population of 38,000 is heavily Catholic and multinational, with only a fifth of the population actually citizens of the principality.
—ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
But the ties between the papacy and Monaco run deep with Catholicism the state religion in the principality, and the Vatican sees diplomatic mileage in working closely with another small state.
—Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
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Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 11 Apr. 2026
Monaco's population of 38,000 is heavily Catholic and multinational, with only a fifth of the population actually citizens of the principality.
—CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
Monaco’s population of 38,000 is heavily Catholic and multinational, with only a fifth of the population actually citizens of the principality.
—ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
But the ties between the papacy and Monaco run deep with Catholicism the state religion in the principality, and the Vatican sees diplomatic mileage in working closely with another small state.
—Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for principality
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The Austrian archduchess Marie Louise, former empress of the French, who was granted Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla for her lifetime, preserved some of the Napoleonic administrative and legal structure in the duchy.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
12 Mar. 2026
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La Tour was born in Lorraine, a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1593, twenty-one years after Caravaggio, whose sensational combination of naturalism and theater, light and dark, formed him as a painter.—
Nicole Krauss,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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Years ago, a Saudi royal court official reprimanded me for describing the kingdom as a land of conditional opportunity.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
7 May 2026
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Yet all around the struggling center of Ross’ kingdom is opulence, wealth, success.—
Greg Cote
May 7,
Miami Herald,
7 May 2026
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Using hundreds of elephants to haul artillery, Cornwallis invaded Mysore and carved up the sultanate.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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On April 21, 1526, a Central Asian prince named Babur defeated the Delhi sultanate ruler Ibrahim Lodi in India and laid the foundations of what would become one of the most important empires of early modern history—the Mughal Empire (1526–1857).—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
14 Apr. 2026
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Lorenz began building her millinery enterprise in 1938, living in a flat above her hat shop on London’s Great Portland Street to craft a millinery empire.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
10 May 2026
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For instance, Japan is the home of Hello Kitty, the little cartoon cat created in 1974 that launched an $80 billion empire.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
10 May 2026
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In October, Andrew was stripped of his princely title, his dukedom, and a number of awards and honorifics.—
Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
2 Feb. 2026
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However, the scandal surrounding King Charles' brother, the former Prince Andrew — who was stripped of his dukedom as well as his other royal titles, including prince, in October 2025 — has led some to believe that the York title is tainted and won't be reassigned in the future.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
29 Nov. 2025
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Nothing could illustrate the absurdity of 2026 quite like an upcoming concert by Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, in a former Soviet republic being produced by Live Nation Israel.—
Shirley Halperin,
Rolling Stone,
14 May 2026
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Perhaps not coincidentally, Russia invaded the former Soviet republic of Georgia later that year.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2026
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While chatting with the sovereign, Burgess said his treatment leaves him with a bad taste in his mouth, and King Charles instantly related.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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Kate Perez The multi-day trip by Charles and Camilla is the first state visit by a British sovereign since Queen Elizabeth in 2007, but not the first between the British royal and Trump.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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This was clearly outside the purview of the colonizer, who saw land as a resource held under his dominion.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
22 Apr. 2026
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For China, bringing Taiwan under its dominion would break through that barrier and expand its military reach.—
Wayne Chang,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Principality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/principality. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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