kingdom
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Mitridate is trying to hold onto his kingdom, Pontus, against the advance of the Roman Empire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Regardless of ranking, the kingdom is a crude-exporting powerhouse and now sees its export capacity severely curtailed.
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
Later, the prince would comb the kingdom searching for her.
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
Uganda abolished its traditional kingdoms in 1967, but they were restored in the 1990s under President Museveni.
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
To say that our picture of the Mayan civilization—an interlocking network of kingdoms occupying the Yucatán Peninsula and swaths of present-day Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador from roughly 1000 B.C. to A.D.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Thriving thanks to their strategic geographical position, strong state backing and leading carriers, huge air hubs in the Gulf oil kingdoms have been shaken by the conflict over Iran.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
Different areas were ruled by different families, much like the kingdoms of medieval Europe.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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