sheikh

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Recent Examples of sheikh Inside Paramount’s bumpy sale: the president, a scion and a possible sheikh. Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2025 Attendees included sheikhs and the CEO of the Raffles Family Office, Chi-man Kwan. Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 21 Feb. 2025 Landi also used his time in Dubai to consult for a start-up run by an Emirati sheikh. 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 See All Example Sentences for sheikh
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheikh
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
  • At the end of their version of Cinderella, the tragic stepsisters cut off the backs of their heels to try to fit into the glass slipper; the prince only notices the deception when their stockings fill with blood.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 3 Oct. 2025
  • James pointed out that Tindall pulled George into a hug and kissed him on the head while the prince and his siblings were greeting well-wishers.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Gianfranco was every inch the grand seigneur but without the pretense.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Nattering nabobs of non-mainstream media might call it assault by beverage.
    Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 14 July 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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 6 Oct. 2025.

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