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Recent Examples of sheikh
Inside Paramount’s bumpy sale: the president, a scion and a possible sheikh.
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Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2025
Attendees included sheikhs and the CEO of the Raffles Family Office, Chi-man Kwan.
—Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 21 Feb. 2025
Landi also used his time in Dubai to consult for a start-up run by an Emirati sheikh.
—Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
One sheikh recently signed a deal to lease a vast swatch of Tanzania’s forests – totaling 8% of the country’s land – for a carbon offset business.
—Kizito Makoye, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
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Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2025
Attendees included sheikhs and the CEO of the Raffles Family Office, Chi-man Kwan.
—Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 21 Feb. 2025
Landi also used his time in Dubai to consult for a start-up run by an Emirati sheikh.
—Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
One sheikh recently signed a deal to lease a vast swatch of Tanzania’s forests – totaling 8% of the country’s land – for a carbon offset business.
—Kizito Makoye, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sheikh
Noun
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The lights dim, and a hush falls over the crowd, as the last nawab of Oudh strides onto the stage at Palo Alto’s Cubberley Theater.—
Isha Trivedi,
The Mercury News,
17 Jan. 2025
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The Oudh descendants in Kolkata, where the nawab died in exile, had also rejected their claim.—
Ellen Barry,
New York Times,
22 Nov. 2019
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In terms of its risk-to-reward ratio, investing in an independent film ranks somewhere in the neighborhood of accepting the hand of a Nigerian prince who has introduced himself to you via cold email.—
Nick Pinkerton,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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The prince paid £1 million for the property back in 2003, and under the terms of the 75-year lease, due to expire on June 15, 2078, he is expected to pay for any refurbishment work and the maintenance of the surrounding grounds.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Guy Montag burned libraries in Fahrenheit 451, and Don Quixote’s priest and barber burned the romances that turned the hidalgo mad.—
Justin Beal,
Curbed,
11 Sep. 2021
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Gianfranco was every inch the grand seigneur but without the pretense.—
John Mariani,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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The Patriots have lost five of six to Bills uber-QB Josh Allen, the reigning signal-caller seigneur of the AFC East.—
Christopher L. Gasper,
BostonGlobe.com,
8 Jan. 2023
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Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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Nattering nabobs of non-mainstream media might call it assault by beverage.—
Pat Beall,
Orlando Sentinel,
14 July 2024
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Available in 9-karat and 18-karat yellow and white gold, the pendant and chevalier ring come with a cast kit to take the pet’s nose print, which is then reproduced on the jewels by the brand’s goldsmiths.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
15 Oct. 2025
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In 2021, Gaydos was named a chevalier/knight by France’s Ministry of Culture in recognition of his long career in entertainment.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
24 Feb. 2025
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Only the wealthiest resided in the inner city, made up the raja’s court, and decided the fate of the kingdom’s people—yet never ventured outside the sixty-foot-tall iron gate to mingle or empathize.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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This was the beginning of her lifelong love affair with horses, which led her to work as a groom for an Indian raja, or prince, to excel as a competitive horsewoman and to teach innumerable students the joy of riding.—
Richard A. Marini,
San Antonio Express-News,
20 Feb. 2018
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Terence had really identified very much with being the grand seignior.—
Clark Collis,
EW.com,
13 Sep. 2021
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“Sheikh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sheikh. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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