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rulers
noun as in historically, person who ruled an area
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Weak matches
noun as in tool for measuring or calculating length
Strong matches
- measure
- rule
- straightedge
- T-square
- yardstick
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Example Sentences
The result is a promotional twofer that’s appeared on a range of products including coffee mugs, key chains, rulers and notebooks.
The Yamaha concert grand also withstood bombing in a previous war between Israel and Gaza’s rulers - Hamas - in 2014, and was carefully restored the following year by a French music technician.
In 1999, the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist movement that emerged triumphant from the Afghan civil war, wanted to legitimize themselves on the world stage as the rightful rulers of this mountainous land.
In this view, he and his are the only legitimate rulers, and therefore there is no limit on what they can do to seize the power that is rightfully theirs.
Both governments claim to be the country's legitimate rulers.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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