sultana

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Recent Examples of sultana 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 Savory pies and Christmas puddings All grapes, raisins, currants and sultanas are toxic to dogs; as are foods that contain them – which means no mince pies for your pooch. 3. Htv National Desk, Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2019 Raisins, sultanas, currants and grapes, which can make pets very sick. Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sultana
Noun
  • This mosque also holds the tombs of the commissioning sultan, his wife Haseki Hürrem, and Mimar Sinan himself. Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque The Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque is an example of how versatile Mimar Sinan was as an architect.
    Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The Blue Mosque was built by Sultan Ahmet I, the Ottoman Empire’s sultan between 1603 and 1617.
    Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • She's been linked to everyone from Leonardo DiCaprio to a Saudi prince, and was even married to Donald Trump Jr. for 13 years.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The prince is disappointed in his offspring — the family has gone to seed.
    Anthony Paletta, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 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
  • Also, frankly, some toddlers have a princess phase no matter how much parents might try to avoid it.
    Anna Earl, Parents, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Her natural fairy tale princess energy elevates a fairly ordinary modernized retelling into something more.
    Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • During the Iranian Revolution of 1979, strikes carried out by oil and transportation workers were essential to paralyzing the shah’s regime.
    Eric S. Edelman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
  • An ally of the United States, the shah went into exile in Mexico.
    Peter Baker, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • King, kaiser, czar, empire, democracy, European civilization, national honor—the reasons, in hindsight, make no sense.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The king of action production powered forward with Cliffhanger (1993), starring Stallone and directed by Renny Harlin, a stellar man vs. nature and man vs. his past thriller.
    Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2025
  • In the early 1980s, Chamberlain gained a reputation as the king of the miniseries for his starring roles in Shogun, The Thorn Birds and Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The emir also held a joint meeting with Biden's top Middle East adviser Brett McGurk and President Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss the hostage deal.
    Barak Ravid, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The principle to start with, as the emir of Kuwait has suggested, should be nonaggression and noninterference in one another’s internal affairs.
    Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2020

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

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