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Recent Examples of sultanate
In his day, the land around the mountains was thick with frankincense trees, which the sultanate is now trying to protect as both a cultural and commercial resource.
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Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
Iran and the United States will hold talks in the sultanate of Oman on Saturday in an attempt to jump-start negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
—Associated Press, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
The site was built in the 18th century by a sultanate that still governs the region politically and spiritually.
—Scott Mowbray Amrita Chandradas, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
Long periods of rule by Portuguese, Dutch, and finally British colonial occupiers were only fully concluded in 1965, when the Maldives became an Islamic sultanate, albeit one not initially included in the British Commonwealth.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2025
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Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
Iran and the United States will hold talks in the sultanate of Oman on Saturday in an attempt to jump-start negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
—Associated Press, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
The site was built in the 18th century by a sultanate that still governs the region politically and spiritually.
—Scott Mowbray Amrita Chandradas, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
Long periods of rule by Portuguese, Dutch, and finally British colonial occupiers were only fully concluded in 1965, when the Maldives became an Islamic sultanate, albeit one not initially included in the British Commonwealth.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sultanate
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Owned in majority by the government of the principality, the SBM counts LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton among its minority shareholders.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
9 Sep. 2025
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Locals will tell you September is the best month to visit the Riviera, and one of the principality’s top chefs, Marcel Ravin, is closing out the summer season in style with a dinner at Elsa at Forbes Travel Guide Recommended The Monte-Carlo Beach.—
Lane Nieset,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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The plants in the kingdom were designed to convert crude oil directly into chemical products.—
Matthew Martin,
semafor.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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With war looming and chaos consuming the kingdom — drawing in the ruthless kings of other Scandinavian countries and even a powerful English ruler — the stage is set for a thundering, cataclysmic and utterly magical new Norse saga.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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However, the duchy passed on to Prince William when Charles became king on the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 July 2025
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Known collectively as Hessians, since most Germans hired by London to fight in America came from Hesse-Kassel, this contingent was largely from the small, impoverished duchy of Brunswick, whose ruling family had intermarried with the British royal family.—
/ CBS News,
CBS News,
13 June 2025
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Our guides prepared with customary rigor, reading widely in the ever-growing scholarship on women in the early republic.—
Jane Kamensky,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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The servants of this democratic republic’s machinery are, in truth, nothing but members of a mafia set up to plunder the island’s riches—and the West is complicit, with its own interests in the riches underground, in the ocean, from the soil.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Oct. 2025
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For 14-year-old Fajer Saeed Alyileili from the emirate of Fujairah, the journey began on Instagram.—
Essie Assibu,
Variety,
10 Oct. 2025
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It is rooted in the achievements of Abu Dhabi Art and will carry them onto the global stage, reinforcing the emirate’s position as a cultural capital while offering Frieze a unique gateway to the region.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
10 Oct. 2025
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One of them isn’t so small anymore, as Cal AI has taken off to become a $30 million empire.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
12 Oct. 2025
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Mac Jones was the heir to Tom Brady’s New England empire, but he was then sent to Jacksonville.—
Dianna Russini,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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That was a domain where the Badgers excelled.—
Scott Dochterman,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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The raw scores for each domain are transformed into a standardized zero to 100 scale, where higher scores indicate better health.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Oct. 2025
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In exchange for some $200 million per season, NBC and Peacock will assume dominion over the Sunday Night Baseball package from which ESPN uncoupled itself in February.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars.—
Merrill Markoe,
Rolling Stone,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Sultanate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sultanate. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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