duchy

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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. 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 See all Example Sentences for duchy 
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Noun
  • The principalities in Anatolia also put up a fierce fight against the Ottomans, who conquered the region in the fifteenth century.
    Halil Karaveli, Foreign Affairs, 2 Mar. 2016
  • This adds six hectares of space to Monaco’s existing 208 hectares (a space only about two-thirds the size of New York’s Central Park), which brings the amount of land Monaco has added over the past sixty years to roughly 25% of the principality’s total size.
    Amy Rose Dobson, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Global oil prices remain depressed years after the height of the coronavirus pandemic, affecting the kingdom's revenues.
    Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince announced Thursday that the kingdom is set to invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years.
    John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The basis of this business empire is the Blago Group of Companies.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
  • By embedding his brand within the worlds of sports, music, and entertainment, the Philip Plein luxury empire remains relevant and firmly connected to contemporary culture.
    Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Doubtless, this is how Franklin found himself in Paris, persuading an absolute monarch to back the birth of a republic.
    Michael Sheldrick, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Since its founding as a republic, Turkey had been charting a future based on a clean break with its Ottoman past, a time when Constantinople ruled Syria, but Erdogan openly embraced that past as a means to establish Turkey as a major power.
    Alia Malek, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Andrew’s response is more petulance; more younger brother than the adult, aging son of the sovereign.
    Jack King, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Much better to be overlooked and underappreciated than in the sovereign’s good graces.
    Eva Wolchover, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Vendors differentiate through features and functionalities or by catering to specific industry domains.
    Sandeep Sakharkar, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Throughout her racing career, Deegan has shown her versatility across different racing domains.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Giving this apparatus dominion over AI will create a Frankenstein’s monster of secrecy, unaccountability and decision-making power.
    Matthew Guariglia, The Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • This lays in stark contrast to the doctors who have become the proverbial elves of healthcare, toiling under the sprawling dominion of administrative entities.
    Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024

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“Duchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duchy. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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