sultan

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Recent Examples of sultan Soon, Johor was the world’s top gambier supplier and a major source of pepper—a legacy commemorated in the sultan’s coat of arms, which features both crops. Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026 Opened in 1929, La Mamounia, built on the grounds and gardens of a sultan’s palace, combines traditional Moroccan architecture with 20th century Art Deco flair. Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 31 Dec. 2025 Edis, chief of the Landon family office and a protégé of its founder, the late swashbuckling billionaire Timothy Landon, who’s legendary as the chief political advisor to his military school chum, the sultan of Oman, notes that Swain gives Houlihan Lokey an extra edge. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025 The director’s fourth feature is told through the story of an early 20th-century sultan curious about the wonders of the burgeoning cinematograph, eventually being introduced to the ins and outs of the new technology by a former operator for the Lumiére Brothers. Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sultan
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Noun
  • Dressed in a dark suit and wearing medals from his decade of service in the British army, the prince acknowledged the crowd with a smile and a wave.
    Kylie Walters, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The Bengals crowned Boye Mafe as prince of the pass rush going forward, shelling out $20 million per year for his services.
    Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Doing so asserted his own role as a maker of emperors, while Charlemagne gained a sacred aura.
    Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Once in a while, a very bad emperor was said to have rounded up the disabled.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In the afternoon, the king and queen will visit Kensington Creative & Performing Arts High School in Fishtown, where they'll be joined by Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker.
    Alexandra Simon, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Once favored by scientists and royalty, Haghartsin now holds the graves of kings.
    Marlise Kast-Myers, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In 2017, four regional rivals implemented a land and air blockade of Qatar, citing comments by its emir praising Iran as a great power.
    Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In 2010, a Qatari emir argued, in private correspondence released by WikiLeaks, that the Iranians could not be trusted.
    Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Dissent was often violently quashed by SAVAK, the shah’s security service.
    Jeffrey Fields, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The son of the last shah of Iran before the revolution, Pahlavi has been issuing statements about the war and been positioning himself as a potential transition leader should the regime completely collapse.
    Zach LaChance, The Washington Examiner, 22 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The plot revolves around the evil Dark Helmet (Moranis) and President Skroob (Brooks), who attempt to steal the atmosphere of the peaceful planet Druidia, only to be thwarted by the hero Lone Starr (Pullman), his sidekick Barf (John Candy), and the Druish princess Vespa (Zuniga).
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Right around that time, the Venice Film Festival saw Mamoru Hosoda’s anime epic Scarlet, in which the Danish prince became an ass-kicking Danish princess consigned to a hellish and phantasmagoric underworld.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Contemporary art work, frescoes and artifacts discovered during the property’s restoration, including a marble head of the Roman empress Livia Drusilla, are also on display.
    Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 8 Apr. 2026
  • She is especially recognized for her starring role as the Russian empress Catherine II in the Hulu show The Great (2020–23), for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for best actress in a comedy series.
    Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
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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