sultan

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Recent Examples of sultan 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 As per the transparency documents, in the month of July, Starmer also received gifts from other foreign leaders—a book and tie from French President Emmanuel Macron, a leather wallet from France's first lady Brigitte Macron and an ornamental shield from the sultan of Oman. Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 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 See All Example Sentences for sultan
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Noun
  • In the weeks before that dinner, dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and the Times and other outlets reported that world leaders had come to suspect the crown prince in the murder.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The Washington Post has reported that Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, was in favor of the war, for example, although the Saudis have denied this.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The voices captured on that wall belong not to emperors or senators, but to lovers, laborers, sports fans, and artists who left their marks in a corridor between two theaters, never imagining those marks would still be read 2,000 years later.
    Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Russell Crowe, 'Gladiator’ (2001) Crowe's Roman warrior Maximus, a general banished to slavery thanks to a petulant young emperor (Joaquin Phoenix) who rises back to glory, is a throwback to old-school Hollywood action heroes that still works.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In the previously unseen photo the future king shared on March 15, Diana and William—who looks to be roughly the age of a toddler—are seen in a field of flowers.
    Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Harry recently met up with his father, King Charles, and there are rumors that the two will meet up again when the king visits the US for a state visit in April.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 15 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Biden's wife, former first lady Jill Biden, received a bottle of Ormonde Jayne perfume and an 18-carat gold necklace with diamonds from the emir of Qatar and his spouse.
    MATTHEW LEE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arkansas Online, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The crackdown has accelerated since Kuwait’s emir dissolved the country’s parliament in May 2024 and embarked on a regulatory overhaul.
    Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Safavi was executed by the shah a decade later, when Ali Khamenei was a teenager.
    Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Khomeini was a leader of opposition to the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, an authoritarian who wanted to modernize the country.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • There, rising from fugitive to fearless warrior, the princess unites warring tribes for a final stand in the Battle of Dhi Qar, a clash that will change history forever.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Perhaps the most notable homage to the princess’s iconic sparkler is Amal Clooney’s ring from George Clooney.
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The group of four robbers was able to bypass security systems and used power tools to break into the Louvre to steal invaluable jewels once worn by France’s queens and empresses, officials told NBC News after the robbery.
    Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBC news, 24 Feb. 2026
  • In 2014, the empress left her seclusion and traveled again to the Dutch country to attend the coronation of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, confirming the friendly relationship between the two houses.
    Marta Martínez Tato, Vanity Fair, 23 Jan. 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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