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sheik

[sheek, shayk] / ʃik, ʃeɪk /




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The outlet noted that Ferguson has experienced some public hiccups, like the time she was caught promising a News of the World reporter disguised as a sheik access to Andrew in exchange for nearly $700,000.

From Fox News ● Jul. 26, 2021

While still a long shot, Scherr and other horse owners could compete for the Derby against millionaires and even a billionaire sheik who spend incredible wealth on horses.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2020

It’s intriguing, but in terms of a realistic purchase...is it a Mark Zuckerberg or a sheik who's going to buy it?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2017

But Mr Dutton defended his department against accusations that a visa for the sheik should never have been approved.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2016

Anne’s sheik was wearing a black-and-orange-striped blazer, gray Oxford bags, a bow tie on an elastic band, and a brown triangular porkpie hat, pinched into a bowsprit at the front.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

By the 1960s, the Egyptian was a wealthy man who was wheeling and dealing with everyone from Arab sheiks to Papa Doc Duvalier, Haiti's notorious dictator.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023

No fewer than nine members of IOC itself are princes, princesses, dukes or sheiks — and that list doesn’t include the multitude of government officials involved in organizations that branch out of the IOC.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2020

Flappers and sheiks also took their cues from the high-flying romances they saw on movie screens and confessions in movie magazines of immorality on movie sets.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

Kelly insisted he was not actually taking bribes from FBI agents posing as oil sheiks but conducting an investigation of his own.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 18, 2014

From that day on, about the only contact Dad had with the sheiks was over the telephone.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey


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