duchy

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Recent Examples of duchy Leave a comment View Comments The bulk of that income is generated from a portfolio of land, property and other assets, called the Duchy of Lancaster, worth about £648 million ($811 million), according to the duchy’s accounts for the last financial year. Anna Cooban, CNN, 22 Nov. 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 Anne of Cleves, sister to the duke of a German duchy, emerged as a promising candidate. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025 Even in an era of kingdoms and duchies, nobody could afford a Bugatti Royale. Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for duchy
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Noun
  • The principality’s narrow streets are particularly ill-suited to the current Formula 1 cars and make overtaking all but impossible.
    Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • The principality’s flag may be red and white, but Monaco is awash in blue and beige — colors Leclerc and Ferrari Style creative director Rocco Iannone drew from when collaborating on the latest capsule collection from the F1 team’s in-house fashion brand, another Leclerc side project.
    Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The series ends with Simone standing outside Cliff House as the sun sets over the island, the new queen of this kingdom.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 May 2025
  • But in November 2023, the gilded walls of Combs' music kingdom came crashing down.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • In 1890 came the colonial encroachment by British–South African empire man Cecil John Rhodes, after whom the country was named.
    Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 June 2025
  • Of course, the largest portion of Rowling’s empire continues to be her book sales.
    Matt Craig, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • One is entrenched in Gilead, while the other resides with Mayday operatives helping to smuggle women out of the republic.
    EW.com, EW.com, 28 May 2025
  • In our country, a democratic republic, our presidents govern, which means to manage and to administer under a set of laws, a constitution, sharing power with legislature and justice departments.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • Oman’s foreign minister served as an interlocutor between the two sides at talks last weekend in Muscat, the sultanate’s capital.
    Jon Gambrell and Nasser Karimi, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The sultanate subsequently hosted backchannel talks between the United States and Iran in the lead-up to the 2015 nuclear agreement, and its banks facilitated some of the financial relief included in that deal.
    Nikita Lalwani, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2020
Noun
  • Finally last week, Moody’s downgraded the U.S. sovereign credit rating from Aaa to Aa1 citing years-long fiscal weakening and a materially higher interest burden than other Aaa sovereigns carry.
    Ann Rutledge, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • But there is no global sovereign, just a balance of national powers.
    Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • In the 10,000 sample records there were 220 email addresses with .gov domains.
    Matt Burgess, Wired News, 22 May 2025
  • As described, Golden Dome would use the sensors in a layered approach in which they are installed on a variety of platforms in multiple domains, including ground, sea, air and space.
    Iain Boyd, The Conversation, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Indian spirituality, with its emphasis on the interconnectedness of life, was an important check on the hubris of American individualism and biblical notions of how the world had been given by God to man to have dominion over.
    Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • By making his milieu familiar to a modern audience, Hytner and Bailey ignore the profound strangeness of Richard, who gains dominion over himself only by letting a nation slip through his fingers.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2025

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“Duchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duchy. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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