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a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field
a neighborhood in which the city's merchant princes built palaces that shamelessly celebrated their wealth
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Recent Examples of princes
The cohort will be honored at a virtual ceremony on Thursday, with the princes issuing separate congratulatory messages.
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Janine Henni, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
If this is how princes of the church behave, perhaps the rest of us aren’t so bad after all.
—Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
The polo belt occupies a unique niche in the realm of menswear—it’s worn by both princes and athletes, at once aesthetic and utilitarian, and somehow straddles the worlds of casual and elevated dress.
—Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2024
Combs, who kept framed pictures of the princes in his New York apartment, also offered to pay for their security.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
Like most European monarchies, there are plenty of princes and princesses that hang from the branches of the House of Bernadotte family tree—many of whom also regularly make official appearances on behalf of their country.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024
Sailors, Renaissance princes, Tudor kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and other storybook characters also came to life on the runways.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024
And for lovers of history and art, northern Italy is peppered with properties of illustrious provenance, its rural estates awash with references to the poets, politicians and princes who once found inspiration beneath their frescoed ceilings.
—Zoë Dare Hall, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Janine Henni, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
If this is how princes of the church behave, perhaps the rest of us aren’t so bad after all.
—Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
The polo belt occupies a unique niche in the realm of menswear—it’s worn by both princes and athletes, at once aesthetic and utilitarian, and somehow straddles the worlds of casual and elevated dress.
—Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2024
Combs, who kept framed pictures of the princes in his New York apartment, also offered to pay for their security.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
Like most European monarchies, there are plenty of princes and princesses that hang from the branches of the House of Bernadotte family tree—many of whom also regularly make official appearances on behalf of their country.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024
Sailors, Renaissance princes, Tudor kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and other storybook characters also came to life on the runways.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024
And for lovers of history and art, northern Italy is peppered with properties of illustrious provenance, its rural estates awash with references to the poets, politicians and princes who once found inspiration beneath their frescoed ceilings.
—Zoë Dare Hall, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Princes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/princes. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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