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Recent Examples of sultanate
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.
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Susannah Patton, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2025
Oman, a sultanate on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, has long served as an interlocutor between Iran and the West.
—Matthew Lee and Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Susannah Patton, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2025
Oman, a sultanate on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, has long served as an interlocutor between Iran and the West.
—Matthew Lee and Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sultanate
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Also known as a Jodhpuri suit, the bandhgala originated in the principality of Rajasthani Jodhpur in the 16th century.—
Brendan Ruberry,
semafor.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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Yoshi is arguably among the most upscale spots for Japanese cuisine in the principality.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Over the past few years, the kingdom has been one of the most active markets for stock offerings, driven by sales of shares in the state oil giant Saudi Aramco and holdings of its sovereign wealth fund.—
Matthew Martin,
semafor.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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The island is a self-governing territory of the kingdom of Denmark and thus part of the NATO military alliance.—
Regina Garcia Cano,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Jan. 2026
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The nation was to be purged of continual sin not indeed all of its own doing—due partly to its inheritance; and yet a sin, a negation that gave the world the right to sneer at the pretensions of this republic.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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European allies, oil-rich gulf states, former Soviet republics and even the Pope have also received offers to join.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
22 Jan. 2026
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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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That fits in with other initiatives launched in recent years, such as longer-term visas and routes to citizenship — all designed to turn the emirate into somewhere people want to live over the long term, rather than just work in for a few years.—
Dominic Dudley,
semafor.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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When this contemporary art museum opens, along with Saadiyat Grove, a new residential and retail project, the Saadiyat Cultural District will become the emirate’s most desirable address.—
Clare Dight,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 Jan. 2026
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Late-aughts Hollywood was roiled by the financial crisis, and Paramount, the studio behind The Godfather and Titanic, was the struggling moviemaking arm of the Redstone family’s Viacom cable-TV empire.—
Reeves Wiedeman,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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But Paramount’s hostile takeover bid means that a giant question mark looms over the entire media empire.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
12 Jan. 2026
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Purpose, experience, and domain mastery aren’t being displaced here; they’re being leveraged.—
Sanjay Srivastava,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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In 2019, the Hospital for Sick Children lost control of Motherisk’s web domain after the subscription lapsed.—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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During the Cold War, Radio Free Europe broadcast news to parts of Eastern Europe that were under Communist dominion.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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His strong-arming of universities, law firms, and media companies is a response to real problems, but his actions seem aimed more at harming those entities—and expanding his dominion over them—than at crafting enduring fixes.—
Stephen Kotkin,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
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“Sultanate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sultanate. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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