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Recent Examples of kingship
Each period touches on three themes: society, kingship, and beliefs.
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Nada El Sawy, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Dec. 2024
That’s the only boring nonsense about kingship is that you’re supposed to have an heir.
—Marc Malkin, Variety, 15 June 2024
At its founding, Rome was a kingship, but when subsequent kings became tyrannical, the Roman people overthrew the monarchy and established a republic, which had a remarkable history and lasted almost 500 years.
—Vickie B. Sullivan, The Conversation, 5 June 2024
In fairness, his reward was a centuries-long life and the kingship of Númenor, an island of men similarly endowed with longevity.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
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Nada El Sawy, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Dec. 2024
That’s the only boring nonsense about kingship is that you’re supposed to have an heir.
—Marc Malkin, Variety, 15 June 2024
At its founding, Rome was a kingship, but when subsequent kings became tyrannical, the Roman people overthrew the monarchy and established a republic, which had a remarkable history and lasted almost 500 years.
—Vickie B. Sullivan, The Conversation, 5 June 2024
In fairness, his reward was a centuries-long life and the kingship of Númenor, an island of men similarly endowed with longevity.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kingship
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Under Sarkozy’s presidency, between 2007 and 2012, there was a huge surge in Qatari investment in French industry, Parisian real estate and much else.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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The appeal -- as well as the ongoing appeal of Trump's $83 million judgment in the E. Jean Carroll civil case and half-billion-dollar civil fraud case -- is proceeding on uncharted legal grounds as Trump wields the power of the presidency in his defense.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
30 May 2025
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His parents, Marcelo Netto and Miriam Leitão, are both journalists who resisted the dictatorship and were persecuted.—
Marcelo Cajueiro,
Variety,
27 May 2025
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Men and women respond to the Nazi dictatorship by becoming, at best, evasive and feebly self-justifying, at worst, morally broken.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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That’s why data fluency for leaders is more essential than technical mastery.—
Jani Hirvonen,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Edwards showed a mastery of clutch time that had eluded him in the regular season.—
Jon Krawczynski,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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That effort failed, but as one of the last acts of his first governorship, Brown signed a bill to increase payments to such workers by about $3 billion a year, angering employers who must provide coverage.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2025
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Three years after resigning the governorship in a cloud of scandal, Andrew M. Cuomo is making final preparations to run for mayor of New York City and could announce his candidacy as soon as this weekend, according to four people familiar with the planning.—
Nicholas Fandos,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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Brunson earns the nod here as my second East backcourt starter because of his overall efficiency and floor generalship.—
Eric Koreen,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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Brunson earns the nod here as my second East backcourt starter because of his overall efficiency and floor generalship.—
Eric Koreen,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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But Ukraine accuses Russia of seeking to seize control of the country and remove its sovereignty in an imperial war of aggression.—
Shane Croucher
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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Canadians were not happy when U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer extended a state visit invitation to Mr. Trump on behalf of the king during a time when Mr. Trump threatened Canada’s sovereignty.—
ROB GILLIES,
Christian Science Monitor,
27 May 2025
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As the superintendency reports, continued archaeological investigations will hopefully reveal more about the tomb and the surrounding necropolis, which may illuminate the social history of the ancient Neapolitan community that used it.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 July 2024
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The superintendency for the largest suburban school district in southwest Ohio became vacant in January 2023, after former superintendent Matt Miller said a board member bullied him out of his position.—
Bebe Hodges,
The Enquirer,
4 May 2024
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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
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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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“Kingship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kingship. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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