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sultanate

noun

Definition of sultanate

as in principality

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Recent Examples of sultanate Using hundreds of elephants to haul artillery, Cornwallis invaded Mysore and carved up the sultanate. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 This includes Russia and the tiny oil and gas sultanate of Brunei, said Indonesian Energy Minister Bahlil Lahadalia. — Anton L. Delgado, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026 After the Cold War ended, ASEAN expanded to include Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, as well as the tiny sultanate of Brunei, increasing the salience of Southeast Asia as a geopolitical entity. — Susannah Patton, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2025 Meanwhile, embassies, sultanate palaces, and colonial villas have been steadily restored, including Perdicaris Villa in Rmilat, a 70-hectare urban forest, and the new Museum of Contemporary Art in the former casbah prison, dedicated to the north Moroccan postwar canon of abstract painters. — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for sultanate

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Noun

Hard Rock Stadium is now Formula 1’s annual principality while JPMorgan Chase’s expanding South Florida presence mirrors the region’s growing luxury-car economy.

— Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
The principality is traditionally conservative and in 1984 became the last European country to grant women the right to vote in national elections.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of principality

Noun

In the 2010s, the kingdom and some of the other Arab Gulf states turned to China for armed drones since the United States refused to sell them any at the time.

— Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
In July this year, Jamaica’s government said two of its three citizens deported to the tiny kingdom have formally declined offers to be repatriated to the Caribbean nation.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

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The Prime Minister of the Turkish republic of northern Cyprus, Ünal Üstel, told Turkish media that 237 people had been rescued from the ship, and search efforts were continuing for 23 people.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
This panic is also nothing new; television was supposed to rot our brains, and radio before that, and somehow the republic survived.

— Mckenna Friedland, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of republic

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Based out of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the emirate’s financial centre, Coinbase has been granted a license to arrange investment deals and provide custody for tokenized securities.

— Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026
Just 90 minutes north of Dubai, in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, is Al Jazira Al Hamra, a ghost town with roots stretching back to the early 14th century.

— Kieron Marchese, Architectural Digest, 27 July 2026

Definition of emirate

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This option also grants a handful of extra features, such as custom branding, domains, and team analytics.

— Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 27 Aug. 2026
The 120 misconfigured files the researchers found contained 227 commands to install non-existent packages or view unclaimed domains.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of domain

Noun

Lutnick was on his way to Paris to meet with the Arnault family who, as part of their dominion over LVMH, run the Cheval Blanc hotel group.

— Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026
When Heilmann arrived in New York in 1968, minimalism, post-minimalism, and Conceptual art were turning the city into one enormous male dominion.

— Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2026

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