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Recent Examples of duchy
The investigation also revealed how the royal duchies receive millions from the armed forces, schools, prisons and fire and ambulance services.
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The Week Uk, theweek, 4 Nov. 2024
The independent duchies of sixteenth-century Italy established free ports, which allowed slavers safe passage and relieved import duties for transiting merchants in need of temporary storage for perishable goods like grain.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
The lucrative duchy spans 130,000 acres across 23 counties in England and Wales today, encompassing farmland, property and commercial businesses.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Until Italy’s unification in 1861, its territory was carved up into several kingdoms, duchies and city-states, each with its own culinary practices.
—Dawn Davis Sharon Radisch Soneela Nankani Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 13 May 2024
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The Week Uk, theweek, 4 Nov. 2024
The independent duchies of sixteenth-century Italy established free ports, which allowed slavers safe passage and relieved import duties for transiting merchants in need of temporary storage for perishable goods like grain.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
The lucrative duchy spans 130,000 acres across 23 counties in England and Wales today, encompassing farmland, property and commercial businesses.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
Until Italy’s unification in 1861, its territory was carved up into several kingdoms, duchies and city-states, each with its own culinary practices.
—Dawn Davis Sharon Radisch Soneela Nankani Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 13 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duchy
Noun
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The most memorable of those victories came at his home Grand Prix in the principality of Monaco.—
Aleks Klosok,
CNN,
21 Feb. 2025
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Princess Charlene of Monaco made a royal appearance at an event in the principality on Tuesday.—
Julia Teti,
WWD,
29 Jan. 2025
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He is paid hundreds of millions per year to play in the country, and frequently appears at events in the kingdom and in marketing to support its investments and tourism efforts.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
16 Feb. 2025
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But storybook fortresses aren’t exclusive to mythical kingdoms and romantic tales.—
Gulnaz Khan,
AFAR Media,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Taiwan was clearly an outpost of American empire, but the U.S. presence was benevolent in certain ways.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2025
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So, too, did anticolonial nationalists in the twentieth century conceive of their battles against Western empires in this way.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Having served as Ambassador to Washington D.C., Beijing, Singapore, and the Czech republic, Jaishankar enjoys a huge comparative advantage over his global peers, because of his familiarity with the machine and machinations of modern diplomacy.—
Vasuki Shastry,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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Kyiv said Moscow was sending Russian troops there to help pro-Russian separatists, but the Kremlin denied the accusations, insisting that Kyiv conduct direct negotiations with the breakaway republics there, and in another eastern region, Luhansk.—
Joanna Kakissis,
NPR,
21 Feb. 2025
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The site was built in the 18th century by a sultanate that still governs the region politically and spiritually.—
Scott Mowbray Amrita Chandradas,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Long periods of rule by Portuguese, Dutch, and finally British colonial occupiers were only fully concluded in 1965, when the Maldives became an Islamic sultanate, albeit one not initially included in the British Commonwealth.—
Rob Crossan,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Jan. 2025
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The crux of the problem is that the Constitution explicitly grants power to both federal and state governments – but the founders did not specify what to do if the two sovereigns disagree or how any ensuing struggle should be resolved.—
Claire B. Wofford,
The Conversation,
27 Jan. 2025
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The sovereign visited his daughter-in-law before his own procedure, and they were discharged a few days apart.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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Here’s Where Trump Is Winning—And Losing—In Court Specialized AI research agents are another development in this market, focusing on domains where literature searches are time-consuming.—
Gil Press,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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The White House feels access to limited areas like the Oval Office and Air Force One shouldn't be guaranteed to a select few legacy outlets — but instead should be opened up to include both MAGA voices, and other new or niche nonpartisan publications with more domain expertise.—
Axios,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
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Historically, imperialist leaders have used military conquest, economic coercion or diplomatic pressure to expand their dominions, and justified their foreign incursions as civilizing missions, economic opportunities or national security imperatives.—
Monica Duffy Toft,
The Conversation,
20 Feb. 2025
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Kanye West goes on another antisemitic rant, defends Diddy, declares ‘dominion’ over wife.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2025
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“Duchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duchy. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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