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kingdom

[king-duhm] / ˈkɪŋ dəm /


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The oil exporting kingdom is now dealing with the shutdown of its East-West pipeline.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

The kingdom hasn’t yet offered official word on the extent of the damage or a restart timetable.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

Finding the way back home is an important behavior across the animal kingdom.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

It said the kingdom would "support the efforts of the Iraqi government" to "prevent attacks" launched from the country against neighbouring states.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

A kingdom where kings are throned and dethroned daily.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

A bitter succession dispute has erupted in one of Uganda's traditional kingdoms, days before the burial of its late king, who until his death had been the world's youngest reigning monarch.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

To reach the common ancestor shared by the plant and animal kingdoms, Anderson says researchers must look back to around 1.6 billion years ago.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

Legend has it that the lion-headed figure protected the country from invasions and was worshiped as a god of war in the ancient Nubian kingdoms of Kush.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

Around 300 years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” the dragonlord led a campaign, with his sister-wives Visenya and Rhaenys, to conquer six of the seven kingdoms of Westeros.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 3, 2026

The arrival of the domestic horse in West Africa transformed warfare there and turned the area into a set of kingdoms dependent on cavalry.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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