sultan

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Recent Examples of sultan Ottoman sultans repeatedly shut down cafes over similar fears. Ali Halit Diker, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025 Noor Inayat Khan, codenamed Madeleine during her service with the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the great-great-granddaughter of an Indian sultan. Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025 Sultanate: Supreme power rests in the hands of a sultan. Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 Some modern commentators suggest that the circles represent the triple role of Ottoman sultans as chieftain, warrior and emperor. Dorothy Armstrong june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for sultan
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Noun
  • In terms of its risk-to-reward ratio, investing in an independent film ranks somewhere in the neighborhood of accepting the hand of a Nigerian prince who has introduced himself to you via cold email.
    Nick Pinkerton, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The prince paid £1 million for the property back in 2003, and under the terms of the 75-year lease, due to expire on June 15, 2078, he is expected to pay for any refurbishment work and the maintenance of the surrounding grounds.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Robert Kalmey observes, this moment encapsulates what Roman historians thought of as the worst of all of Octavius’s crimes against the state before becoming emperor.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The dark moniker was the emperor’s way protect European farmers from the much superior indigo coming in from India.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio and emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha today.
    NBC News, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the Qatari emir and prime minister in Doha on Tuesday, emphasizing Washington's desire for Qatar to remain engaged in mediation efforts aimed at securing the release of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and ultimately disarming the group.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • All of these prices reflect standard/queen sizes, however, the options in this guide come in king sizes too.
    Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The king’s execution in January 1793 led to civil war throughout much of the nation.
    Time, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • During the shah’s reign, filmmakers wrapped their civic appraisals in allegory, like Dariush Mehrjui’s 1969 Iranian New Wave classic, The Cow, about how a cow’s death spins its owner into unhinged chaos.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In the course of human events — at the courts of tsars, sultans, kaisers, shahs and the like — fealty has usually trumped expertise.
    Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In 2015, Girls actress Allison Williams traversed the New York City subway system dressed as Belle from Beauty and the Beast (1991), looking uncannily similar to the princess.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • As the two start to fall for each other, things get complicated when Huntley discovers Victoria is a princess.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His most important client, during a fifty-year career, was an empress, but tsarinas, society mavens, actresses, and courtesans all came to rely on his expertise.
    Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
  • There is only one queen at a time and should two reign, they are considered mother-daughter empresses.
    Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • Witkoff went from Qatar to Israel on Saturday and insisted on having a meeting with the prime minister on the afternoon of the Jewish sabbath—a violation of Israeli protocol rudely designed to remind Netanyahu who was the vassal and who was the suzerain.
    Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Citizens of countries historically exploited by the West face higher financial and bureaucratic hurdles to access facilities and resources concentrated in their former suzerain.
    WIRED, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022

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