sultan

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Recent Examples of sultan The sultan is the second-longest reigning monarch, following the late Queen Elizabeth II. Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2024 Putin refers to this region—a vast expanse of steppe and the coastline that the tsars wrested from the Ottoman sultans in the eighteenth century—by the name Novorossiya, or New Russia. Brian Milakovsky, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2022 In effect, Erdogan crowned himself as Turkey’s new sultan—simultaneously becoming the head of state, head of government, head of the ruling party, and head of the police (which is a national force in Turkey). Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 4 Jan. 2022 Besides, a defeat for the old sultan could give Moscow control over, or the power to threaten, the Strait of Hormuz off Oman’s northern coast, potentially squeezing the flow of oil that was the lifeblood of the U.K.’s economic life and indeed crucial to economics across Europe. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sultan
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Noun
  • This dream comes closer to becoming real when Elvira, and her beautiful new stepsister Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Naess) are invited to a society ball that the prince is hosting.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The prince met with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian to discuss regional cooperation.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • His successor, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhunzada, whose son became a suicide bomber, is an austere cleric who has adopted the reclusive mystique of the original amir.
    New York Times, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The amir of Kabul bought bicycles for his entire harem.
    National Geographic, National Geographic, 17 June 2020
Noun
  • For centuries, the Chinese believed that their land was the center of the world and that their emperor held the mandate of heaven to govern it.
    Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Was Trump thinking that the emperor can do no wrong?
    Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Qatari palace said the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, met with Hamas' delegation in Doha as well as with Witkoff and Brett McGurk, President Joe Biden's top Middle East adviser.
    VICTORIA EASTWOOD, arkansasonline.com, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The Qatari emir met on Monday with a delegation of senior Hamas officials led by chief negotiator Khalil al-Haya.
    Barak Ravid, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Charlotte on the other hand will likely be the future daughter or sister of a future king.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The Prince of Wales’ attendance in place of the King is a modern tradition, and a statement to further establish William’s role as future king.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • Scarlet tells the story of a brave princess who transcends time and space.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The coins featured the faces of 11 Roman emperors and empresses, including Nero and Marcus Aurelius, according to the University of Oxford’s Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project database.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
  • 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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