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or amir
also ameer
as in sultan
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Recent Examples of emir
But the former emir was hopeful.
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Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
The emir also addressed both chambers of the Houses of Parliament during his visit.
—Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
The emir and his wife arrived in London on Monday at the invitation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, and their visit ended Wednesday.
—Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
On Tuesday, Prince William and Princess Kate kicked off the day by greeting the emir and Sheikha Jawaher and traveling with them to the Horse Guards Parade, where the king offered a ceremonial welcome.
—Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
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Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
The emir also addressed both chambers of the Houses of Parliament during his visit.
—Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
The emir and his wife arrived in London on Monday at the invitation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, and their visit ended Wednesday.
—Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
On Tuesday, Prince William and Princess Kate kicked off the day by greeting the emir and Sheikha Jawaher and traveling with them to the Horse Guards Parade, where the king offered a ceremonial welcome.
—Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emir
Noun
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Rather, throughout the 50 years of Sultan Qaboos’s reign, there was an effort to keep Omani culture intact, while modernizing to have the best of things (including, in Muscat, a dazzling opera house, a passion project for the music-loving sultan).—
Chris Wallace,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Apr. 2025
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Some secular nationalists even went as far as to claim that Ottoman sultans such as Mehmet the Conqueror had invented religious tolerance and helped inspire the European Renaissance.—
Nick Danforth,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Jan. 2015
Noun
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Last month, the British prince made a rare appearance for a two-day hearing.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
2 May 2025
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The National’s program also includes director Robert Hastie’s production of Hamlet, starring Olivier Award-winning actor Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) as the Danish prince at the Lyttelton Theatre from September.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
1 May 2025
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The former emperor will undergo tests at the University of Tokyo Hospital after signs of myocardial ischemia were found during a regular checkup last month, NHK reported, citing the Imperial Household Agency.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
5 May 2025
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Regardless, the Chinese emperors seem to have many attributes in common with the current U.S. president.—
Frank Lavin,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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Are all these things part of a vision of becoming the king of pop?—
Laia Garcia-Furtado,
Vogue,
1 May 2025
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On Tuesday, April 29, the zoo released a statement sharing how keepers feed the vulture chick born on Feb. 25, who is the first king vulture hatched at the zoo in three decades.—
Moná Thomas,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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In First Steps, Garner plays Shalla-Bal, the immortal empress of the plant Zenn-La and Norrin’s lover.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2025
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The city—ever elegant, ever enigmatic—set the stage for one of the magazine’s most iconic stories: The Last Waltz, Mario Testino’s sweeping September 2006 editorial starring Natalia Vodianova as a modern-day empress gliding through Schönbrunn and beyond.—
Lilah Ramzi,
Vogue,
24 Apr. 2025
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Blaze has shown interest in cooking, Disney princesses and her pup Goldie on her Instagram page, which her parents run.—
McKinley Franklin,
People.com,
2 May 2025
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Queens, princesses and empresses were expected to provide an heir, play a surface-level role in the monarchy and rely on appearance over perhaps anything else.—
Elizabeth Djinis,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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By contrast, given Russia's dominant role in the CU, joining that group would transform Yanukovych into a satrap of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whom Yanukovych regards as the avatar of Russian arrogance.—
Rajan Menon,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Oct. 2011
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The quick collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satraps unsettled both nations.—
Christian Schneider,
National Review,
21 Dec. 2023
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Later that year, university students overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seeking the shah’s extradition and sparking the 444-day hostage crisis that saw diplomatic relations between Iran and the U.S. severed.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Mar. 2025
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Later that year, university students overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seeking the shah’s return and sparking the 444-day hostage crisis that saw diplomatic relations between Iran and the U.S. severed.—
Jon Gambrell,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Emir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emir. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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