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Recent Examples of duchy
Just like the Duchy of Cornwall that generates revenue for Prince William, both duchies were established hundreds of years ago to provide income for the sovereign and the heir to the throne.
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Janine Henni, People.com, 22 July 2025
However, the duchy passed on to Prince William when Charles became king on the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
Known collectively as Hessians, since most Germans hired by London to fight in America came from Hesse-Kassel, this contingent was largely from the small, impoverished duchy of Brunswick, whose ruling family had intermarried with the British royal family.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
That’s because prior to its 1861 unification, the Italian peninsula was fragmented into several kingdoms, duchies, and city-states, each with its landscape, culture, food, and grapes.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
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Janine Henni, People.com, 22 July 2025
However, the duchy passed on to Prince William when Charles became king on the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
Known collectively as Hessians, since most Germans hired by London to fight in America came from Hesse-Kassel, this contingent was largely from the small, impoverished duchy of Brunswick, whose ruling family had intermarried with the British royal family.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
That’s because prior to its 1861 unification, the Italian peninsula was fragmented into several kingdoms, duchies, and city-states, each with its landscape, culture, food, and grapes.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duchy
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In October, Andrew was stripped of his princely title, his dukedom, and a number of awards and honorifics.—
Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
2 Feb. 2026
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However, the scandal surrounding King Charles' brother, the former Prince Andrew — who was stripped of his dukedom as well as his other royal titles, including prince, in October 2025 — has led some to believe that the York title is tainted and won't be reassigned in the future.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
29 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The principality functions simultaneously as backdrop, laboratory and customer base.—
Stephan Rabimov,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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The late actress became the Princess of the principality in 1956, and 70 years later, her second engagement ring remains one of the most expensive and influential in history.—
Alyssa Modos,
PEOPLE,
7 May 2026
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But the setting isn’t, say, a fairy tale village or a mermaid kingdom under the sea, to point at two Disney classics the film gives winking reference to.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
15 May 2026
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Absolute kingdoms of the '90s and early-2000s.—
Zach Dean OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2026
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Within that diversity, the most conspicuous large-scale formations were always transnational empires.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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Sabrina graduated from Harvard, and Tucker has expanded his bar empire.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
17 May 2026
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Nothing could illustrate the absurdity of 2026 quite like an upcoming concert by Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, in a former Soviet republic being produced by Live Nation Israel.—
Shirley Halperin,
Rolling Stone,
14 May 2026
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Perhaps not coincidentally, Russia invaded the former Soviet republic of Georgia later that year.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2026
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Using hundreds of elephants to haul artillery, Cornwallis invaded Mysore and carved up the sultanate.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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On April 21, 1526, a Central Asian prince named Babur defeated the Delhi sultanate ruler Ibrahim Lodi in India and laid the foundations of what would become one of the most important empires of early modern history—the Mughal Empire (1526–1857).—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
14 Apr. 2026
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While chatting with the sovereign, Burgess said his treatment leaves him with a bad taste in his mouth, and King Charles instantly related.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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Kate Perez The multi-day trip by Charles and Camilla is the first state visit by a British sovereign since Queen Elizabeth in 2007, but not the first between the British royal and Trump.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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Look for in-place federation that queries domain systems where the data lives, persistent cross-domain state and discovery that recognizes when signals from different domains belong to the same event.—
Shailesh Manjrekar,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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And to be clear, funding health care and nutrition assistance is explicitly the domain of the state and federal governments.—
Monica Montgomery Steppe,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 May 2026
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“Duchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duchy. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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