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Recent Examples of emirate
With just over 3 million residents—most of them foreign workers—the gas-rich Gulf emirate has outstripped its physical limits to become one of the most influential foreign players in geopolitics.
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Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
It is rooted in the achievements of Abu Dhabi Art and will carry them onto the global stage, reinforcing the emirate’s position as a cultural capital while offering Frieze a unique gateway to the region.
—News Desk, Artforum, 10 Oct. 2025
The emirate is one of only two regional mediators leading the sole diplomatic track trying to bring an end to the war in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
—Helen Regan, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Resources nationalism is emerging as an obstacle to an attempt by the oil-rich middle east emirate of Abu Dhabi to acquire Santos, Australia’s second biggest oil and gas company.
—Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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After the Cold War ended, ASEAN expanded to include Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, as well as the tiny sultanate of Brunei, increasing the salience of Southeast Asia as a geopolitical entity.—
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Oman, a sultanate on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, has long served as an interlocutor between Iran and the West.—
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and María Luisa Manrique de Lara y Gonzaga (a rather pompous name that encompassed two major hereditary estates, a principality, a county, a marquisate, and, for a time, a viceroyalty) met in 1680 in Mexico City.—
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Owned in majority by the government of the principality, the SBM counts LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton among its minority shareholders.—
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Over the past few years, the kingdom has been one of the most active markets for stock offerings, driven by sales of shares in the state oil giant Saudi Aramco and holdings of its sovereign wealth fund.—
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The island is a self-governing territory of the kingdom of Denmark and thus part of the NATO military alliance.—
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Late-aughts Hollywood was roiled by the financial crisis, and Paramount, the studio behind The Godfather and Titanic, was the struggling moviemaking arm of the Redstone family’s Viacom cable-TV empire.—
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But Paramount’s hostile takeover bid means that a giant question mark looms over the entire media empire.—
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The revolutionaries and the representatives of the old republic (all of them, it should be said, canny political operatives of various vintages) get along quite well on the ground.—
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The unrest comes as the Islamic republic has been increasingly vulnerable with leaders facing mounting internal and domestic strains and a population growing angrier over a deepening economic crisis.—
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However, the duchy passed on to Prince William when Charles became king on the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022.—
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Known collectively as Hessians, since most Germans hired by London to fight in America came from Hesse-Kassel, this contingent was largely from the small, impoverished duchy of Brunswick, whose ruling family had intermarried with the British royal family.—
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Similar to other great powers, the United States has long looked at its near-abroad at its exclusive domain, where the influence of geopolitical competitors must be constrained to the maximum extent possible.—
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In late 2025, a member of Khan's campaign team bought the domain name for Logsdon's website, following a lapse in her campaign's payments for the domain.—
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The speech, however, is not actually written by the sovereign, but rather by the government.—
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Wurman argued that English common law established protection under a sovereign as a necessary condition to citizenship.—
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“Emirate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emirate. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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