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nonroyal

  • a word derived from royal.

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In his new book, Erickson documents the entrepreneurial, nonroyal Fishers, who, seeking opportunities in a booming port city, relocated in 1911 from Montana to Seattle.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Emanuele Filiberto can himself seem like the hardest working nonroyal in show business.

From New York Times • May 9, 2021

Days before her death, the New London Theatre was renamed the Gillian Lynne Theatre in her honor, marking the first time a West End theater was named for a nonroyal woman.

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2018

A hero of Zimbabwe’s independence movement, the frail Mr. Mugabe is one of the longest-serving nonroyal national leaders in the world.

From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2017

Hospital officials on Monday beseeched the throng to keep a pathway clear for nonroyal patients to enter the hospital, and some workers grumbled about the difficulty of getting to their jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 22, 2013