raja

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Recent Examples of raja Only the wealthiest resided in the inner city, made up the raja’s court, and decided the fate of the kingdom’s people—yet never ventured outside the sixty-foot-tall iron gate to mingle or empathize. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Feb. 2025 This was the beginning of her lifelong love affair with horses, which led her to work as a groom for an Indian raja, or prince, to excel as a competitive horsewoman and to teach innumerable students the joy of riding. Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Feb. 2018 The debate over the sabda raja, as the sultan’s proclamations are known, has exposed fault lines within an otherwise sleepy university town and has led to citywide soul-searching about what the future holds for fast-developing Yogyakarta. Jon Emont, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for raja
Noun
  • The prince has long been committed to raising awareness about men’s mental health and suicide, drawing on his own experiences witnessing the issue firsthand while serving as an air ambulance pilot.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • And fans of medieval fantasy worlds in general can see shades of the Arthurian legends here in the fact that Egg is secretly a prince.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Teeming with tennis courts, specimen trees and stone mansions raised from the dirt by 19th-century railroad barons, the suburb makes wealth feel like weather, an ozone layer shrouding everything — ambient, constant and vital.
    New York Times, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • So no wonder that his engagement with the human cost of rapid industrialization in early 20th century Bohemia fed into his depiction in the novel of social conditions in robber-baron America.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The lights dim, and a hush falls over the crowd, as the last nawab of Oudh strides onto the stage at Palo Alto’s Cubberley Theater.
    Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The Oudh descendants in Kolkata, where the nawab died in exile, had also rejected their claim.
    Ellen Barry, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019
Noun
  • In the course of one such quest, Chloe takes off in the getaway carriage—accidentally trapping a duke named Lawrence inside.
    Karen Ostergren, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Norton, who also serves as an executive producer through his company Rabbit Track Pictures, brings intensity to the role of the doomed English king, while Coster-Waldau delivers a commanding performance as the Norman duke who would reshape English history.
    Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
  • With James' support, George became an earl, a marquess and ultimately a duke (a rarity for nonroyals).
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Now’s your chance to live like a Middle Eastern sheikh.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Later Friday, Trump and special envoy Steve Witkoff had dinner with the sheikh in New York, where Trump went to commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And with Crimson Peak, del Toro swings for the fences, with big gestures from English baronet Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleson) to prove his love for American heiress Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), a big decaying mansion, and big ghost energy.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2024
  • For one, Lady Valerie Meux, a banjo-playing music hall singer who married a British baronet, became a social sensation and quirky philanthropist, and was known to drive around London in a carriage pulled by a pair of zebras.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Seat of the Cholmondeley family for centuries, the Norfolk pile has also become one of the nation’s most galvanizing stages for contemporary art, thanks to David Cholmondeley, the filmmaker seventh marquess of the line, and his wife, Rose.
    Mitchell Owens, Architectural Digest, 2 Aug. 2024
  • An early Titian masterpiece — once looted by Napolean’s troops and a part of royal collections for centuries — caused a stir when it was stolen from the home of a British marquess in 1995.
    Niha Masih, Washington Post, 4 July 2024

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