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Recent Examples of royalty After a three year hiatus, the south Florida festival is returning in 2026 with a lineup featuring Australian dance star Fisher, two performances from bass-funk producer Griz, hip-hop/R&B royalty T-Pain and indie folk stars The Lumineers. Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025 For decades, mechanical royalties from a deep cut on a popular album could get a writer enough to buy a house, but today, streaming revenue on even a viral hit may not be enough to cover rent. Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025 But Ischia—which once attracted Hollywood royalty including Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, on a break from filming Cleopatra, and still lures the likes of Robert DeNiro—isn’t really for the attention-seekers. Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2025 King of Leon are still rock royalty. Daniel Kohn, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for royalty
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Noun
  • Autumn Perkins, who lives in Middletown, Ohio, visited a Starbucks location inside Kroger and run by Kroger to order the mint majesty with two honeys.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Photographers interested in capturing the majesty of the night sky should read our roundup of the best cameras and lenses for astrophotography.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The entire film plays out over one long party at an English estate, where the stuffy, traditional English aristocracy collide with Hedda’s bohemian artist friends.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Lots of Guinness family members lived in England and had titles in British aristocracy, and some even became Protestant clergymen.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the series, Marie, an ambitious young woman of minor nobility, learns that her lung disease is terminal.
    Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The film focuses on the power grabbing tête-à-tête between both Sarah and Abigail, with the latter even marrying a colonel in order to regain her nobility.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Likely had a breakout season last year, totaling 42 catches, 477 yards and six touchdowns — all career bests.
    Hunter Simpson, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Course Difficulty Flat, straight courses without many hills favor personal bests.
    Christopher Bergland, Verywell Health, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Black men are not given the patience, the dignity or the humanity afforded to others.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Convincingly portraying a woman who regains her dignity in her quest to follow in her father’s footsteps, Hart’s performance of inscrutable sacrifice balances a regal confidence with the uneasiness of someone in perpetual survival mode.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kovalchuk's comments show the Russian elite is likely to remain deeply anti-Western and sympathetic toward conspiracy theories for the foreseeable future.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • During the trial, Combs' lawyers acknowledged that the man once famed for hosting lavish parties for the cultural elite in luxurious locales like the Hamptons and Saint-Tropez was at times violent in his relationships.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Royalty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/royalty. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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