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Recent Examples of sheikh
Landi also used his time in Dubai to consult for a start-up run by an Emirati sheikh.
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Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
One sheikh recently signed a deal to lease a vast swatch of Tanzania’s forests – totaling 8% of the country’s land – for a carbon offset business.
—Kizito Makoye, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
Mubarak tried to bring mosques and sheikhs in hand by requiring them to obtain licenses issued by the state.
—Geneive Abdo, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2020
Although much smaller than the Hoover archive, this is a precious collection of internal government and party documents, as well as a large number of Saddam’s recordings of his closed-doors meetings with his generals, the most senior party officials, tribal sheikhs, and foreign dignitaries.
—Amatzia Baram, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2016
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Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
One sheikh recently signed a deal to lease a vast swatch of Tanzania’s forests – totaling 8% of the country’s land – for a carbon offset business.
—Kizito Makoye, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
Mubarak tried to bring mosques and sheikhs in hand by requiring them to obtain licenses issued by the state.
—Geneive Abdo, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2020
Although much smaller than the Hoover archive, this is a precious collection of internal government and party documents, as well as a large number of Saddam’s recordings of his closed-doors meetings with his generals, the most senior party officials, tribal sheikhs, and foreign dignitaries.
—Amatzia Baram, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheikh
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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Nobody was more badass to crank up on our speakers than the one and only prince of darkness - Ozzy Osborne!—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
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Journey with Marie and her valiant Nutcracker prince to the Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy to experience a classic story with distinctly local flair.—
Maggie Menderski,
The Courier-Journal,
22 July 2025
Noun
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The oldest in the region is the Half Way House in Chesterfield, of course, which has been serving Founding Fathers, Civil War generals and at least one French marquis since 1760.—
Karri Peifer,
Axios,
10 Sep. 2024
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Queen Charlotte presents Francesca with a marquis from Vienna.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
16 May 2024
Noun
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Gianfranco was every inch the grand seigneur but without the pretense.—
John Mariani,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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The Patriots have lost five of six to Bills uber-QB Josh Allen, the reigning signal-caller seigneur of the AFC East.—
Christopher L. Gasper,
BostonGlobe.com,
8 Jan. 2023
Noun
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Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But the trouble with chivalry is that the chevalier decides what is best for the lady without consulting her.—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
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He was made a chevalier of arts and letters by the French Culture Ministry in 1991.—
Michael S. Rosenwald,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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Janie Hunt, 9, of Dallas, a great-granddaughter of oil baron William Herbert Hunt and a relative of the family that owns the Kansas City Chiefs, was attending Camp Mystic for the first time, her grandmother Margaret Hunt told the New York Times.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 July 2025
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Huene, a baron, had known Paley since dancing school in Russia, where his father had been equerry to the czar.—
Amy Fine Collins,
airmail.news,
5 July 2025
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“Sheikh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sheikh. Accessed 1 Aug. 2025.
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