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
  • Nobody was more badass to crank up on our speakers than the one and only prince of darkness - Ozzy Osborne!
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
  • Journey with Marie and her valiant Nutcracker prince to the Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy to experience a classic story with distinctly local flair.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 22 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
  • Armed with advanced weaponry inherited from the last Pahlavi shah, the government launched a military campaign in Kurdistan province.
    Shukriya Bradost, The Conversation, 28 June 2025
  • In January 1979, the shah left Iran, ostensibly to seek cancer treatment.
    Jeffrey Fields, The Conversation, 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
  • Be sure to catch the marksmanship competition during which festival participants shoot at a wooden eagle to determine the festival's king and queen.
    Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 30 July 2025
  • Rooms incorporate natural accents, king beds and marble bathrooms with soaking tubs.
    Taryn White, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • In a separate social media post this afternoon, Trump thanked the emir of Qatar.
    Chelsea Chan, NBC news, 24 June 2025
  • The announcement came as Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg joined President Donald Trump and the emir of Qatar in Doha for a signing ceremony as part of the president’s tour through the Middle East.
    Michele Luhn, CNBC, 15 May 2025

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“Sultana.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sultana. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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