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Recent Examples of highness
The former royal highness will be too busy leading the Resistance, alongside Jonathan and his ragamuffin group of bandits, to fight off all of the Queen’s men.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
People took cannabis and rated their own impairment before driving in a simulator, and most vastly underestimated their own highness.
—Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2025
They are no longer addressed as his or her royal highness.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
In a desperate bid to save her royal highness from the dazed outfielder, Drebin shoots a dart from his cufflinks that strikes a woman in the upper deck, who falls on top of Jackson and prevents him from firing the gun.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
Your highness may believe that in all the world, there can be no better people.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2023
Enter Email Sign Up Take his royal highness Clarence Thomas.
—Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
The regal motif takes design cues from the 17th-century crown that will be bestowed upon his royal highness during the ceremony on May 6.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2023
The following day will welcome her reggaeton highness Ivy Queen, as well as Becky G, Ryan Castro and Young Miko.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2023
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
People took cannabis and rated their own impairment before driving in a simulator, and most vastly underestimated their own highness.
—Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2025
They are no longer addressed as his or her royal highness.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
In a desperate bid to save her royal highness from the dazed outfielder, Drebin shoots a dart from his cufflinks that strikes a woman in the upper deck, who falls on top of Jackson and prevents him from firing the gun.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
Your highness may believe that in all the world, there can be no better people.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2023
Enter Email Sign Up Take his royal highness Clarence Thomas.
—Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
The regal motif takes design cues from the 17th-century crown that will be bestowed upon his royal highness during the ceremony on May 6.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2023
The following day will welcome her reggaeton highness Ivy Queen, as well as Becky G, Ryan Castro and Young Miko.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2023
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“Highness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/highness. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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