duchy

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Recent Examples of duchy An investigation for Channel 4's flagship current affairs show Dispatches and The Sunday Times has uncovered thousands of documents showing for the first time how the duchies make their money. Jack Royston, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for duchy
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Noun
  • Dmitriy Rybolovlev, the Russian billionaire and majority owner of the French football club AS Monaco, has been cleared of all criminal proceedings in Monaco, following a ruling by the principality’s Court of Appeal on February 27.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • These companies now generate some 30 percent of the principality’s revenues.
    Eric B. Schnurer, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2015
Noun
  • Even in an era of kingdoms and duchies, nobody could afford a Bugatti Royale.
    Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The new brand campaign arrives three months after the tour hosted its finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the first time in December after the WTA signed a sponsorship pact with the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, PIF, last May.
    Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But building a criminal empire is expensive, and not just monetarily.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2025
  • McKinley, after all, presided over America’s 1898 emergence as a colonial empire.
    Robert W. Merry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Take, for example, Trump’s mid-speech listing of the ages of people that the Social Security Administration believes to still be alive, including some seemingly as old as the republic itself.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Since information is power, concentrating unprecedented data in the hands of a private entity with an explicit political agenda represents a profound challenge to the republic.
    Allison Stanger, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 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
  • The American sovereign held fast for his plan to turn Ukraine into a client of the U.S.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Since 2012, emerging market banks’ exposure to their own sovereign’s debt has risen over 35%.
    Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 12 Mar. 2025.

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