duchy

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Recent Examples of duchy The duchy is a private estate owned by the British royal family, and was established by King Edward III in 1337 as a means to provide income for the heir to the throne. Janine Henni, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025 Eleanor Roosevelt, who had viewed Mesta’s appointment with disfavor, dropped into the duchy and changed her mind after seeing her in action. Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025 The couple later rented nearby Windsor Cottage (no relation to the duchy), which was purchased by the hotel and moved on site in 1990 and now houses the members-only Ocean Club. Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for duchy
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Noun
  • The principality of Monaco is perhaps the least suitable place on the Formula 1 calendar to hold a Grand Prix.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2025
  • This shift allowed Europe to escape from the problem that had doomed Indian civilization to impotence: a state that was so weak that society constantly dissolved into petty principalities that inevitably fell prey to more powerful invaders.
    John Micklethwait, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2014
Noun
  • Because once somebody is in the kingdom, things can happen to them, and the Western press doesn't really know.
    Edward Felsenthal, Time, 23 July 2025
  • Over the same period, Saudi Arabia’s citizens gained visa-free access to four countries, bringing its total to 91 countries, which lifts the kingdom four places to No. 54.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • The issue wasn’t with FC Nordsjælland, which is also part of the Right to Dream empire and has sent several other players to SDFC.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
  • His new Goods and Services Tax replaced a byzantine tax code that included oddities like the octroi, a city toll on goods originating in the Roman empire.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • From the Cossack republics of the 17th century to the Maidan uprising of 2014, Ukraine has consistently supported freedom and pluralism.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Charges of legislative graft are as old as the republic itself.
    Kevin R. Kosar, The Washington Examiner, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • The sultanate has repeatedly blocked or opted out of any Saudi moves toward deeper GCC security, political, or economic integration.
    Rory Miller, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2017
  • 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
Noun
  • The situation is made more challenging by the fact that our taxpayer also functions as the head a foreign sovereign — the Holy See.
    Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • The address marks only the second time in Canadian history that the reigning sovereign has opened parliament, and the third time that the British monarch has delivered the Speech from the Throne.
    Max Saltman, CNN Money, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • These children show difficulties across almost every domain: language, cognition, behavior.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • The implication was that some powerful figure, or perhaps a cabal of them, secretly killed Epstein to prevent damaging information about themselves from entering the public domain.
    Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • Root takes that concept of player asymmetry to another level, letting each player fight for dominion of the woodland wilderness with completely different actions and mechanisms.
    Simon Hill, Wired News, 12 July 2025
  • After confederation, Canada strove to be the most British dominion in the British empire.
    Stephen Marche, The Atlantic, 1 July 2025

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“Duchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duchy. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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