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Recent Examples of royalty Many larger disease foundations have launched venture philanthropy programs that invest in biotech companies and projects, getting royalties and other financial considerations if their gifts help fund new treatments. Robin Fields, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025 The legislation would require that terrestrial stations not only pay royalties to music publishers and songwriters, as is currently required, but performers as well. Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025 Also included are royalties from sneaker deals, as well as earnings from memorabilia, appearances, media and businesses tied to their celebrity. Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 14 Feb. 2025 But once upon a time, this glorified barn just below San Francisco’s southern border hosted basketball royalty. Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for royalty
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Noun
  • No one does anything in these paintings except turn their back on the viewer and stare forlornly at the world in all its sublime majesty, which Friedrich suggests is a mirror for the world within.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
  • His every soaring note was an homage to their majesty.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Cosmo Jarvis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rosamund Pike and Anthony Hopkins were earlier announced for the movie that sees Ritchie return to the colorful, back-stabbing world of the British aristocracy.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
  • She was born into the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, the product of a narcissistic mother, who was a scion of the Guinness-brewing fortune, and an Etonian father, who was killed in wartime Burma, when Blackwood was thirteen.
    Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Embalmers had different recipes for preparing and preserving bodies depending on the era; the budget; the level of nobility and gender of the deceased; and the availability of ingredients such as plant resins, oils and other unguents that could preserve and perfume the remains.
    Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
  • European salons were nobility inviting composers into their homes to write and play music.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The company unveiled its latest model , called Grok 3, and claims its performance bests OpenAI and DeepSeek in early testing.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Darnold, 27, blew past his career bests with 4,319 passing yards, 35 passing touchdowns and a 102.5 passer rating in leading the Vikings to a 14-3 record and the NFC’s No. 5 seed.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Prioritizing High-Potential, High-Risk Populations While the strategies – and rhetoric – vary, every Administration in modern history has embraced the goal of creating jobs that offer dignity and economic stability in order to shore up America’s economic position and maximizing our human capital.
    Maria Flynn, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The Trump administration has made the border a zone that is overtly hostile to human rights and displays utter disregard for the humanity and dignity of people on the move.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This departure from post-Berlin Wall universalist liberalism has been a long time in the making, and Vance's incisive rebuke of European elites powerfully drove home the point.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Crosby’s still got it There will be a day when Crosby is no longer among the elite of the elite.
    Arpon Basu, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025

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“Royalty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/royalty. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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