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or sheik
1
: an Arab chief
2
usually sheik
: a man held to be irresistibly attractive to romantic young women
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One sheikh recently signed a deal to lease a vast swatch of Tanzania’s forests – totaling 8% of the country’s land – for a carbon offset business.
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Kizito Makoye, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
Mubarak tried to bring mosques and sheikhs in hand by requiring them to obtain licenses issued by the state.
—Geneive Abdo, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2020
Although much smaller than the Hoover archive, this is a precious collection of internal government and party documents, as well as a large number of Saddam’s recordings of his closed-doors meetings with his generals, the most senior party officials, tribal sheikhs, and foreign dignitaries.
—Amatzia Baram, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2016
His assassin, El Sayyid Nosair, was an adherent of the blind sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, whose sect was linked to the 9/11 attacks.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 8 May 2024
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Kizito Makoye, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
Mubarak tried to bring mosques and sheikhs in hand by requiring them to obtain licenses issued by the state.
—Geneive Abdo, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2020
Although much smaller than the Hoover archive, this is a precious collection of internal government and party documents, as well as a large number of Saddam’s recordings of his closed-doors meetings with his generals, the most senior party officials, tribal sheikhs, and foreign dignitaries.
—Amatzia Baram, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2016
His assassin, El Sayyid Nosair, was an adherent of the blind sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, whose sect was linked to the 9/11 attacks.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 8 May 2024
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“Sheikh.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sheikh. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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