king
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We have king tide-like flooding,’” Swain said in a recent livestream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
More Kelvin waves are expected later this season, and scientists are concerned about whether one could coincide with exceptionally high king tides, a big storm, or both, raising the risks of a coastal flood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Our call of the day comes from the investor known as the bond king, Jeffrey Gundlach, who likens stock markets to a hollow tree that’s about to break.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Morocco is a constitutional monarchy but most power remains in the hands of the king.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Selkie snuggled beside her a moment longer, but when the king barked again, she slid off the rock and into the sea.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
The ancient world had many kings and conquerors, but there was no one like Alexander the Great.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Don Omar remains one of the undisputed kings of reggaeton, helping to bring the genre to a wider audience and strengthen its dominance in popular culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The kings of Denmark and Sweden called Harald an "extraordinary" leader and good friend who unified his country.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
It looks like Newcastle are going to be the counter-attack kings this season.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
We talk of the kings and queens of Faerie as we would speak of the kings and queens of England.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
The Ducks kinged the Kings, in essence, by retrenching and building a defense-first focus that offered players a way out of a deep deficit and paved the way for offense to follow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2016
He took a white piece from the pile beside the board and kinged his man.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
Yet know I am but the ineffectual Shade Of her the Travailler, herself a thrall To It; in all her labourings curbed and kinged!
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
He kinged it in the coffee-house, then the fashionable place at which the wits gathered, as Jonson had in the tavern.
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
Taka, daughter of chiefs and Fiji's pride, 3Lily of maidens, was betrothed to him; Desirous eyes kinged him with envy's crown.
From The Rose of Dawn A Tale of the South Sea by John La Farge
As Daemon put it in that meeting — he, too, has obvious flaws but also an early knack for saying what we’re all thinking — the thing the king is worst at is kinging.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
“I’m watching girls and performers of all genders who maybe five years ago would have gone into burlesque who now are seeing drag kinging as the ultimate art form,” Mr. Grrrl said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2021
What could have made this performance closer to kinging?
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2020
What about her performance struck you as a good criticism of the male perspective, even though she may not be kinging?
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2020
Even old Richard I, who'd been pretty wild during the first forty-odd years of his life, had settled down to do a magnificent job of kinging for the next twenty years.
From The Eyes Have It by Randall Garrett
