as in families
a group of people who are related that maintain a powerful position for a long time
The latest heirs of the ruling dynasty have no interest in ceding their position of authority over the land.
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Recent Examples of dynasties
Everything Ferrari has learned over decades of serial F1 dynasties, every chassis and handling trick, comes together in the 12Cilindri.
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Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2024
Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dynasties
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Magda Teter Jewish Middlemen, Archival Myopia The story of two Jewish trading families during the last decades of the Regency of Algiers is skewed by being told through the perspectives of only European and American actors.Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
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The sale had the backing of several of the Connecticut families of the Sandy Hook shooting who were part of the lawsuit.Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Chaos and crime Testing Hamas’ limited capabilities is the reemergence of armed gangs and clans, who held sway in Gaza before 2007.Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2024
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Dungeons & Dragons taught fantasy fans to understand orcs as a fusion of racist tropes, combining a barbaric other and a vaguely native people of tribes and clans.Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Vox, 7 Oct. 2024
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Many tribes were critical of NAGPRA for empowering museums to make decisions about whether Indigenous people had valid connections to their ancestors.Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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The Met and other museums with significant Native American collections are also being criticized for displaying work with descriptions that omit or minimize information about the wars, occupations, massacres, and exploitation that dominated the tribes’ past.Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Dynasties.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dynasties. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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