king
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Vietnam's Central Highlands produces around one sixth of the world's coffee, but farmers are switching their traditional crop for durian to cash in on surging Chinese demand for the pungent "king of fruits".
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
What many Norwegians did question, though, was whether her former party lifestyle was one compatible with that of someone married to the future king.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The late monarch has been described as an inclusive, transparent and empathetic "people's king" who modernised the Norwegian monarchy.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Born in 1973, King Haakon is the youngest child of the late king and Queen Sonja.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
He could get used to chomping down on a huge turkey leg like some old- time king in a movie, couldn’t he?
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
It looks like Newcastle are going to be the counter-attack kings this season.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Rather than serving as "an impartial chronographic work," the researchers suggest it may instead have functioned as "a legitimizing canon of kings, which was periodically updated to remove short-lived or parallel Neo-Assyrian rulers."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
The flames have got close to the site, which holds the remains of the first kings of the medieval kingdom of Aragon, but these as well as other artefacts have been removed as a precaution.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Instead, Ted’s emphasis on personal growth and camaraderie rebuilds the Greyhounds from their league’s demoralized joke into its comeback kings, powered by their yearning to Believe.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
Full-grown giant sequoias like these were called monarchs, because they were the kings and queens of trees.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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
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
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
Its lords had borne a glorious name; God kinged them when the season came.
From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson
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
If Taylor Swift was to take what she did in this video and then perform as this character, that makes it more like drag kinging, because now she’s reusing this character.
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
