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Recent Examples of sultanate
This includes Russia and the tiny oil and gas sultanate of Brunei, said Indonesian Energy Minister Bahlil Lahadalia.
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ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
After the Cold War ended, ASEAN expanded to include Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, as well as the tiny sultanate of Brunei, increasing the salience of Southeast Asia as a geopolitical entity.
—Susannah Patton, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2025
Oman, a sultanate on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, has hosted the three rounds of talks between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff.
—Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
Meanwhile, embassies, sultanate palaces, and colonial villas have been steadily restored, including Perdicaris Villa in Rmilat, a 70-hectare urban forest, and the new Museum of Contemporary Art in the former casbah prison, dedicated to the north Moroccan postwar canon of abstract painters.
—Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
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ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
After the Cold War ended, ASEAN expanded to include Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, as well as the tiny sultanate of Brunei, increasing the salience of Southeast Asia as a geopolitical entity.
—Susannah Patton, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2025
Oman, a sultanate on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, has hosted the three rounds of talks between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff.
—Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
Meanwhile, embassies, sultanate palaces, and colonial villas have been steadily restored, including Perdicaris Villa in Rmilat, a 70-hectare urban forest, and the new Museum of Contemporary Art in the former casbah prison, dedicated to the north Moroccan postwar canon of abstract painters.
—Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sultanate
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With that, Grace decided to abandon her blazing career in Hollywood and move to the small principality of Monaco.—
Francesca Pellegrini,
Vanity Fair,
19 Apr. 2026
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On this day in 1956, the two-day wedding celebration of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III began in the tiny European principality of Monaco.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
14 Apr. 2026
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Years ago, a Saudi royal court official reprimanded me for describing the kingdom as a land of conditional opportunity.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
7 May 2026
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Yet all around the struggling center of Ross’ kingdom is opulence, wealth, success.—
Greg Cote
May 7,
Miami Herald,
7 May 2026
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When our First Amendment rights are trampled, when politicians in both parties put their thumbs on the scale through gerrymandering, our republic is damaged.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
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Musgraves similarly aims to be a republic of one.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
7 May 2026
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The Austrian archduchess Marie Louise, former empress of the French, who was granted Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla for her lifetime, preserved some of the Napoleonic administrative and legal structure in the duchy.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
12 Mar. 2026
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La Tour was born in Lorraine, a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1593, twenty-one years after Caravaggio, whose sensational combination of naturalism and theater, light and dark, formed him as a painter.—
Nicole Krauss,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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The emirate on the Gulf of Oman is home to extensive oil storage facilities and is the UAE’s main sea access outside the strait.—
Adam Schreck,
Twin Cities,
4 May 2026
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The emirate has just 72 kilometers (45 miles) of natural shoreline, but artificial islands and peninsulas have provided far more beachfront for its 4 million residents, and the millionaires and billionaires who collect such properties.—
Manal Albarakati,
semafor.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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Lorenz began building her millinery enterprise in 1938, living in a flat above her hat shop on London’s Great Portland Street to craft a millinery empire.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
10 May 2026
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For instance, Japan is the home of Hello Kitty, the little cartoon cat created in 1974 that launched an $80 billion empire.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
10 May 2026
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The exercise builds skills around joint all-domain operations, crisis responses and multinational interoperability, enhances regional security and supports AFRICOM's strategic objectives, the website states.—
Kate Perez,
USA Today,
4 May 2026
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This is exactly the kind of domain where the Board of Supervisors should consolidate its authority rather than fragment it.—
Steve Scauzillo,
Daily News,
4 May 2026
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This was clearly outside the purview of the colonizer, who saw land as a resource held under his dominion.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
22 Apr. 2026
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For China, bringing Taiwan under its dominion would break through that barrier and expand its military reach.—
Wayne Chang,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Sultanate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sultanate. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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