sultan

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Recent Examples of sultan Noor Inayat Khan, codenamed Madeleine during her service with the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the great-great-granddaughter of an Indian sultan. Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025 Sultanate: Supreme power rests in the hands of a sultan. Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 The sultans and their successors have been replaced—first by the British East India Company, which ruled over Gujarat for nearly 50 years, and then, in the wake of the 1857 Indian Uprising, by the British government. Radha Vatsal june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025 The Turkish president appears to see himself as a modern-day sultan, the rightful heir to Sunni leadership. Colin P. Clarke, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2018 See All Example Sentences for sultan
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Noun
  • Rob Shuter’s #ShuterScoop reported from a source close to William that the prince only found out the meeting was taking place just before the king headed to Clarence House.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Prince Harry and his father, King Charles III, have reunited amid the royal family's estrangement from the outspoken prince.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The images also show the remnants of the ancient Roman council building, including a headless statue of the Roman emperor Trajan and the remains of a theater.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In Nero’s time, stepping onto the stage degraded the emperor’s role.
    Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In a separate social media post this afternoon, Trump thanked the emir of Qatar.
    Chelsea Chan, NBC news, 24 June 2025
  • The deal was coordinated at the highest level by the president, Vice President JD Vance, and the Qatari emir and prime minister.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • In the 1600s the British parliament firmly established its predominance over the king, while Europe saw the rise of absolute monarchies in the then-great continental powers of Spain and France.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Fort Lauderdale alerted residents that the heavy rain in recent days, coupled with king tides, put some major roads in the city underwater this week.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The shah was admitted to the United States on October 22.
    Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Anderson’s account of the shah in the 1970s is a familiar story of an Icarus-like figure felled by his own hubris.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Fans will know that one big casting announcement looms large as the otherworldly princess of space Rosalina will be integral to a movie based on Galaxy.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Based on a video shared by Hello Magazine, the princess took a few seconds to simply gather her hair into a low ponytail and tie it into a knot.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His most important client, during a fifty-year career, was an empress, but tsarinas, society mavens, actresses, and courtesans all came to rely on his expertise.
    Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
  • There is only one queen at a time and should two reign, they are considered mother-daughter empresses.
    Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • Witkoff went from Qatar to Israel on Saturday and insisted on having a meeting with the prime minister on the afternoon of the Jewish sabbath—a violation of Israeli protocol rudely designed to remind Netanyahu who was the vassal and who was the suzerain.
    Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Citizens of countries historically exploited by the West face higher financial and bureaucratic hurdles to access facilities and resources concentrated in their former suzerain.
    WIRED, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022

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