consort
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Yet the role of a do-nothing prince consort doesn’t suit the dutiful, and now fiercely faithful, Alfred, and a war of wills—and of the sexes—ensues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
This upcoming Spring/Summer 2026 season has been inspired by Vietnam's former ruling Nguyen dynasty, notably Emperor Khai Dinh and the last empress consort, Nam Phuong, who both lived under colonial French rule.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
The next great constitutional upheaval in Britain, the Glorious Revolution of 1688, displaced King James II in favor his daughter Mary and her consort, William of Orange.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025
The commission for a formal portrait of Mariana of Austria, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor and Spain’s new queen consort, was a very big deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
Corelli’s typical concerto grosso was divided into three sections of contrasting speeds - slow-fast-slow or fast-slow-fast - after the fashion of the earlier consort suites or setts.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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According to the New York Times, it chose not to pursue prosecution because it worried that some potential witnesses, be they fellow partiers or former youthful consorts, “might not have stood up well under cross-examination.”
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2024
However, results showed that the growth rate early in life was not so different between consorts and sneakers, even though they grew up during different seasons.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024
Queen consorts do not formally share the sovereign’s powers, and dropping the “consort” part of the title does not change that.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023
But the first break with tradition comes here: previously, consorts were crowned with new headpieces, created just for this moment.
From Salon ● May 5, 2023
His mother consorts with spirits and daemons, one of whom eventually provides the means to travel to the moon.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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In 2022, Maxwell, who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role in helping Epstein.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
He consorted easily with composition students; he treated us as colleagues, and as a result we weren’t afraid to speak openly around him.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
She consorted with British royalty and American royalty — she attended President John Kennedy’s inauguration and his funeral — and wrote a number of books, including a featherweight memoir just before her death in 2014.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2016
But he played football, consorted with the town’s bad boys, and cultivated a blustery front.
From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2016
It has been my good fortune, after all, to have consorted not just with Mr Churchill, but with many other great leaders and men of influence - from America and from Europe.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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The privilege of consorting with a fox cost more than I had already paid.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022
Prosecutors say that while UAE officials were consorting with Barrack, they were rewarding him by pouring millions of dollars into his business ventures.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
In conservative Afghanistan, such public consorting is taboo, doubly so in a holy site under Taliban guard.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
“If total resistance implies true femininity,” she shot back, “with what, pray tell, have you been consorting all your life?”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019
There was once a king who had three daughters, all lovely maidens, but the youngest, Psyche, excelled her sisters so greatly that beside them she seemed a very goddess consorting with mere mortals.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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