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privy council

noun as in advisory council

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In that article he had accused the king’s top advisory body, the privy council, of helping engineer the 2014 military coup which deposed an administration led by his sister Yingluck.

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The privy council announced on Friday that King Charles III had granted permission for the burial.

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"I thought I'm going to buy a modern dress" and then embroider it with the fern motif of the privy council "as a nod to the past".

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In January, Franklin was summoned to appear before the privy council, the king’s most senior advisers.

The King became the monarch after the death of his mother, but the meeting of the privy council of politicians, officials and clergy formally confirmed it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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