duchy

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Recent Examples of duchy Eleanor Roosevelt, who had viewed Mesta’s appointment with disfavor, dropped into the duchy and changed her mind after seeing her in action. Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025 The couple later rented nearby Windsor Cottage (no relation to the duchy), which was purchased by the hotel and moved on site in 1990 and now houses the members-only Ocean Club. Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2024 Leave a comment View Comments The bulk of that income is generated from a portfolio of land, property and other assets, called the Duchy of Lancaster, worth about £648 million ($811 million), according to the duchy’s accounts for the last financial year. Anna Cooban, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024 The lucrative duchy spans 130,000 acres across 23 counties in England and Wales today, encompassing farmland, property and commercial businesses. Janine Henni, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for duchy
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Noun
  • Last year, hometown hero Charles Leclerc took the victory in the principality.
    Kanzah Maktoum, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • Rival principalities, contesting ethnicities/nationalities, and at least three versions of Christianity (Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian), have roiled the hodgepodge.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • The tomb was discovered at the archeological site of Gordion, the capital of the Phrygian kingdom, which controlled much of Asia Minor during the first millennium BCE, Gordion Excavation Director C. Brian Rose said in a news release.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 13 June 2025
  • But there is, among others, an unease around the Saudi relationship and the way Infantino and FIFA seemed to clear the way for the kingdom to host the 2034 World Cup.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • He is accused of using his billion-dollar empire as a criminal enterprise.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025
  • The feds allege that the tens of millions of dollars Combs made building the Bad Boy Records empire funded a criminal enterprise designed to cater to his every desire.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • In the long term, the collapse of that pillar of regime stability could weaken the edifice of the Islamic republic itself.
    The Editors, National Review, 24 June 2025
  • Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt insisted the president was simply asking if the Iranian people might want a new government, not suggesting the U.S. would lead a fight to overthrow the Islamic republic.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The sultanate has repeatedly blocked or opted out of any Saudi moves toward deeper GCC security, political, or economic integration.
    Rory Miller, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Oman’s foreign minister served as an interlocutor between the two sides at talks last weekend in Muscat, the sultanate’s capital.
    Jon Gambrell and Nasser Karimi, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There are just 24 Companions, and appointments are at the monarch's sole discretion to recognize public service or personal service to the sovereign.
    Simon Perry, People.com, 16 June 2025
  • According to the royal family's website, Trooping the Colour has marked the official birthday of the British sovereign for over 260 years.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2025
Noun
  • That’s the domain of humans: the executive who senses when to pivot, the founder who intuits product-market fit before the metrics appear, the storyteller who moves a room, the leader who earns trust in a single conversation.
    Dror Berman, Fortune, 27 June 2025
  • So how exactly did the former domain of couples’ massages and cucumber water become the next frontier in medicine?
    Kelsey Eisen, Robb Report, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • These were inhabitants of the Real East Coast who, even in the late 2000s, were still under the impression that hip-hop’s having been created in their territory granted them indefinite dominion over how the genre’s rhythm and presentation were supposed to feel.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025
  • The idea of achieving ‘dominion’ over the world and society is not uncommon in charismatic Christian theology, according to religious scholar Matthew Taylor, who studies Christian Nationalism.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025

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“Duchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duchy. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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