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While the cars are moving in two dimensions to the fighter jets’ three, Kosinski makes the races feel truly physical—not just on the turns and straights, but in the frenetic pit stops and in the viewing suites stuffed with sheikhs and tech ghouls.
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Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 20 June 2025
For Bondi to bless this Qatari sheikh's big bad Boeing baksheesh is another not so funny joke in a long line this year.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
Inside Paramount’s bumpy sale: the president, a scion and a possible sheikh.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2025
The sheikh raised his hand, and a bald bodyguard with the squashed nose of a boxer hurried over.
—Yair Lapid, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2022
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Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 20 June 2025
For Bondi to bless this Qatari sheikh's big bad Boeing baksheesh is another not so funny joke in a long line this year.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
Inside Paramount’s bumpy sale: the president, a scion and a possible sheikh.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2025
The sheikh raised his hand, and a bald bodyguard with the squashed nose of a boxer hurried over.
—Yair Lapid, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheikh
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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 Oudh descendants in Kolkata, where the nawab died in exile, had also rejected their claim.—
Ellen Barry,
New York Times,
22 Nov. 2019
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Just as ominous, one of those hunters is a prince who is smitten by a swan princess named Odette.—
David Lyman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Feb. 2026
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That led to Charles’ extraordinary decision to strip Andrew of his royal titles and evict him from the royal estate in Windsor – the British monarch’s most dramatic attempt to quell the scandal over the disgraced former prince’s links to Epstein.—
Max Foster,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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Guy Montag burned libraries in Fahrenheit 451, and Don Quixote’s priest and barber burned the romances that turned the hidalgo mad.—
Justin Beal,
Curbed,
11 Sep. 2021
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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
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But all the nattering nabobs of negativism who’d normally have been concentrating on Maura’s catastrophic first term had to devote at least a little attention to recounting one of the Wu Klux Klan’s more embarrassing moments of 2025.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
21 Jan. 2026
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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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Available in 9-karat and 18-karat yellow and white gold, the pendant and chevalier ring come with a cast kit to take the pet’s nose print, which is then reproduced on the jewels by the brand’s goldsmiths.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
15 Oct. 2025
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In 2021, Gaydos was named a chevalier/knight by France’s Ministry of Culture in recognition of his long career in entertainment.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
24 Feb. 2025
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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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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
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Terence had really identified very much with being the grand seignior.—
Clark Collis,
EW.com,
13 Sep. 2021
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“Sheikh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sheikh. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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