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Recent Examples of royalty The future Goop lifestyle entrepreneur, whose father was filmmaker Bruce Paltrow, grew up as show business royalty in Santa Monica and New York City. Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 July 2025 The suite's regal name is a bit of a misnomer, as it's not technically reserved for royalty. Janine Henni, People.com, 9 July 2025 Meanwhile, the cast and crew signed government contracts with the Department of Education that ensured the show would be free for educational purposes - and forfeited their rights to royalties. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 July 2025 Gray is from a lineage of New Zealand sporting royalty. Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for royalty
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Noun
  • More admired than beloved, the show has extended an open challenge to theater artists drawn to the sophisticated majesty of Brown’s Tony-winning score but daunted by the expansive scope of Uhry’s Tony-winning book.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
  • While some of these women have officially earned their crowns in the Disney princess canon, other heroines like Elsa from Frozen (2013) and Mirabel from Encanto (2021) have essentially become honorary majesties.
    EW.com, EW.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • But Collins, now the head of special collections and archives at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, noticed that the text was written in Old French, the language used by aristocracy and England’s royal court after the Norman Conquest in 1066.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 9 May 2025
  • A little biographical information: He was born in 1896 into the decaying Bourbon aristocracy.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Did Gilded Age millionaires really marry their daughters to British nobility in exchange for funding their estates?
    Alexis Nedd, IndieWire, 2 July 2025
  • Despite her connection by blood to illustrious Roman nobility, Agrippina would disappear almost as swiftly as she was named.
    Diana Arterian June 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Judge holds career bests of 10.60 in the 100 and 21.85 in the 200.
    Matt Roy, Boston Herald, 11 July 2025
  • In 2017, thousands of men ran 400-meter times that were faster than the personal bests of Olympic gold medalists Sanya Richards-Ross and Allyson Felix.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • Our communities should not have to rely on court orders to be treated with dignity.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 July 2025
  • This religious minority known for its dignity, neutrality, resiliency, and peaceful resistance is now being targeted by Jihadi militias supported by the Syrian regime, with tanks artillery, and heavy weapons.
    Sawsan Natour-Hasson, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a propulsive examination of power, love, and art, daring to ask who gets to be remembered and who is left behind in the rarefied world of the elite.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 14 July 2025
  • One America, with coastal elites in places like New York City and Los Angeles, who continue to steamroll towards full-on Marxism, and another with ordinary, hard-working Americans across the country, like here in the great state of Alaska, who don’t embrace this extremism.
    Mike Dunleavy, New York Daily News, 14 July 2025

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“Royalty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/royalty. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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