Akbar
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“It looked like the sun was inside his cell,” said Akbar “Block” McClennon, 39, a fellow student in the prison’s college program who was locked up on the same gallery as Bori.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
This period of relative stability from 1556 to 1658 coincided with the reigns of three consecutive emperors: Akbar, his son Jahangir and his grandson Shah Jahan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Thirteen-year-old Palwasha Akbar was playing in the River Wharfe at Burnsall, North Yorkshire, when she got into difficulty on 31 May.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
A recipe from the court of Akbar reportedly called for equal parts of lentils, rice and ghee, according to NPR.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
Below us, Wazir Akbar Khan’s white- walled, flat-topped houses gleamed in the sunshine, the laundry hanging on clotheslines in their yards stirred by the breeze to dance like butterflies.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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