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Recent Examples of duchy
The investigation also revealed how the royal duchies receive millions from the armed forces, schools, prisons and fire and ambulance services.
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The Week Uk, theweek, 4 Nov. 2024
The independent duchies of sixteenth-century Italy established free ports, which allowed slavers safe passage and relieved import duties for transiting merchants in need of temporary storage for perishable goods like grain.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 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
Until Italy’s unification in 1861, its territory was carved up into several kingdoms, duchies and city-states, each with its own culinary practices.
—Dawn Davis Sharon Radisch Soneela Nankani Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 13 May 2024
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The Week Uk, theweek, 4 Nov. 2024
The independent duchies of sixteenth-century Italy established free ports, which allowed slavers safe passage and relieved import duties for transiting merchants in need of temporary storage for perishable goods like grain.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 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
Until Italy’s unification in 1861, its territory was carved up into several kingdoms, duchies and city-states, each with its own culinary practices.
—Dawn Davis Sharon Radisch Soneela Nankani Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 13 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duchy
Noun
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Princess Charlene of Monaco made a royal appearance at an event in the principality on Tuesday.—
Julia Teti,
WWD,
29 Jan. 2025
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The principalities in Anatolia also put up a fierce fight against the Ottomans, who conquered the region in the fifteenth century.—
Halil Karaveli,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Mar. 2016
Noun
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He is paid hundreds of millions per year to play in the country, and frequently appears at events in the kingdom and in marketing to support its investments and tourism efforts.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
16 Feb. 2025
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But storybook fortresses aren’t exclusive to mythical kingdoms and romantic tales.—
Gulnaz Khan,
AFAR Media,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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In the trailer, Pakistani-American brothers Mir (Asif Ali) and Raj (Saagar Shaikh) Dar discover that their father’s convenience store empire was nothing but a front, and that the real family business has been selling drugs all along.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
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His business empire extends from power generation, airports, mining, ports, and cement.—
Yessar Rosendar,
Forbes,
10 Feb. 2025
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Three Thai women were rescued after a group of Chinese gangsters enslaved them in the former Soviet republic of Georgia in order to harvest their eggs.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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Yet, this republic collapsed quickly following the withdrawal of Soviet support and the subsequent execution of Qazi Mohammad, the head of the Republic, by the Shah’s security forces.—
Sefa Secen & Serhun Al / Made by History,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
Noun
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The crux of the problem is that the Constitution explicitly grants power to both federal and state governments – but the founders did not specify what to do if the two sovereigns disagree or how any ensuing struggle should be resolved.—
Claire B. Wofford,
The Conversation,
27 Jan. 2025
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The sovereign visited his daughter-in-law before his own procedure, and they were discharged a few days apart.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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Another website is registered to a private domain in Iceland.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
15 Feb. 2025
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As a general-purpose technology, AI capabilities are advancing across many domains at this blistering pace.—
Henry Papadatos,
TIME,
10 Feb. 2025
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Dramatically, the buildup to this state of unchecked dominion is more taut than the fallout, largely because Grabowsky’s fine, watchful performance contributes much of the tension as Rakel’s sheer powerlessness begins to dawn on her.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2025
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Urinetown, a defiantly scatological show that premiered on Broadway in 2001, is about a community in the throes of a drought where, thanks to the dominion of the Urine Good Company over the water supply, citizens must pay for the privilege of peeing.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Duchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duchy. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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