sultana

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Recent Examples of sultana The palate reveals rich sultanas and apricot fruit, alongside creamy vanilla. Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025 Flavors are complex and rich and include sultanas and shortbread. Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025 However, sultanas are generally sweeter and softer than their darker counterparts. Lauren O'Connor, Ms, Health, 29 Sep. 2024 Per 100-g serving, raisins and sultanas are similar in calories, protein, and sugars. Lauren O'Connor, Ms, Health, 29 Sep. 2024 It is finished with hints of honey, and encountered with a soft, lingering finish reminiscent of plump sultanas and ripe cherries. Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 6 Sep. 2024 In another example of Islamic women rulers’ reach, a century after Zumurrud, Shajar al-Durr ruled independently as the sultana of Egypt, albeit for only three months. Katherine Pangonis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022 Due to an 18th-century mania for all things Turkish, the French trendsetter Madame de Pompadour (left) chose to be painted as a sultana. Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 1 July 2021 Those pirates thrived under the protection of the island’s capricious sultana, cruel in her poverty, weakness, fearful isolation, and unnatural state of unmarried womanly rule. New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sultana
Noun
  • Sleep in a Palace The Ottoman Empire may have faded away a century ago, but the Bosporus waterway is still flanked by palaces once occupied by sultans and their families or high-ranking courtiers.
    JOE YOGERST, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • The sultans and their successors have been replaced—first by the British East India Company, which ruled over Gujarat for nearly 50 years, and then, in the wake of the 1857 Indian Uprising, by the British government.
    Radha Vatsal June 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • All retained their titles of prince and princess, but these titles will become personal and any future spouses or children will not have a right to them.
    Alex Apatoff, People.com, 15 July 2025
  • Bailey is Fiyero, a prince and popular student at Shiz University, while Goldblum plays the iconic Wizard.
    Daysia Tolentino, EW.com, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • His successor, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhunzada, whose son became a suicide bomber, is an austere cleric who has adopted the reclusive mystique of the original amir.
    New York Times, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The amir of Kabul bought bicycles for his entire harem.
    National Geographic, National Geographic, 17 June 2020
Noun
  • Born in 1919, the Canadian actress began acting in Winnipeg, voicing princesses on the radio before hosting another radio show in Toronto for overseas service members during World War II.
    Skyler Trepel, EW.com, 25 July 2025
  • On Thursday, the rising star released the video for his latest single, which stars the pop princess.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • In January 1979, the shah left Iran, ostensibly to seek cancer treatment.
    Jeffrey Fields, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
  • Khamenei, 86, has led Iran since the death in 1989 of its founding supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini, who had led Iran for 10 years after toppling the country's last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Doorn’s most famous citizen at the time was Wilhelm II, the German kaiser (emperor) and king of Prussia from 1888 to 1918, who was living there in exile.
    Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2024
  • King, kaiser, czar, empire, democracy, European civilization, national honor—the reasons, in hindsight, make no sense.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Edward was on the throne for less than a year, having been named king on Jan. 20, 1936, when King George V died.
    Alex Apatoff, People.com, 15 July 2025
  • The first 20,000 fans will receive a Barry Bonds bobblehead, and Bonds will throw out the ceremonial first pitch in addition to other pregame festivities honoring the all-time home run king.
    Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • Trump spoke to Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani , to thank him for helping land the agreement.
    Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
  • Infantino joined President Trump and the Qatari emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha.
    Adam Crafton, New York Times, 17 May 2025

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“Sultana.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sultana. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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