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In 2024, the king was fitted with a pacemaker having fallen ill on holiday in Malaysia.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

In a world where everyone wants to stay ahead of the truncating trend cycle, customization has become king, which makes the flavor-specificity of a refresher feel far more worth the money.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Licence believes this change in England's relationship with the papacy probably took place after Harold became king in January 1066.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Everyone paused to watch the red carpet arrival of the king himself: George R. R. Martin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

He made to stand, to move farther into the shadows, but when he noticed the bindings and the king sitting across from him, he was enraged.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

Under this traditional model, kings, priests, and other powerful leaders gained control of wealth and resources, causing the divide between rich and poor to expand.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

At a recent panel called ‘Living Legends of Drag: Stories of LGBTQ+ Artistry & Culture,’ two Latine drag kings — Manny Oakley and El Daña — connected their struggles across generations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

It was no accident that kings and prophets styled themselves as shepherds and likened the way they and the gods cared for their people to a shepherd’s care for his flock.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

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

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

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