Example Sentences

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It is one of the society’s 20 kingdoms in North America, each of which is subdivided into provinces, baronies and shires.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2018

If individualised, personalised production catches on, it may radically reshape the corporation, with its divisions, baronies and management structures.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2013

That wasn't done long ago because the Times and the ST were rival, unwilling baronies, protected in part by the terms of their fire-sale purchase three decades ago.

From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2012

But from behind that fog, the four Iranian natives have created one of Canada's biggest and most spectacular real estate baronies and are quickly expanding their razzle-dazzle fiefdom southward.

From Time Magazine Archive

During their road trips across Texas together, his brother Joe Bill had always made a point of showing Mike the great football baronies of Texas—Texas A & M, the University of Texas, Baylor.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger