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  • noun Plural form of dynasty.

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Examples

  • Europe, being the home of kings and queens and dynasties, is flush with them.

    13 Unbelievably Regal Castles In Europe (PHOTOS) Kate Auletta 2010

  • The era of Republican and Democratic dynasties is over with for the next few years at least.

    A Clinton backer turns to McCain 2008

  • July 25th, 2006 at 2: 08 pm james risser says: as bill clinton pimps joe lieberman, and hillary clinton suports the war, let the face of dick morris, and his crulety, remind all that the difference between the clinton and the bush dynasties is closer than one would expect ….

    Think Progress » Dick Morris: ‘Civil War Is Progress’ In Iraq 2006

  • Campaign finance reform, redistricting reform, and tunring out multi generational family dynasties is where its at.

    Think Progress » DeLay Flies Corporate Jet to Arraignment 2005

  • Who is this 'legendary warrior named Chang who was called upon to settle political disputes in Chinese dynasties of yore'?

    Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China 2009

  • The first of these dynasties is that of Kaiomors, as Sir W. Jones observes, the dark and fabulous period; the second, that of the Kaianian, the heroic and poetical, in which the earned have discovered some curious, and imagined some fanciful, analogies with the Jewish, the Greek, and the Roman accounts of the eastern world.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Regarding the so-called "dynasties" - POSSIBLY AN OFFENSIVE ANALOGY / MISNOMER

    Home 2009

  • Regarding the so-called "dynasties" - POSSIBLY AN OFFENSIVE ANALOGY / MISNOMER written by Augustus, December 16, 2008

    Home 2009

  • Regarding the so-called "dynasties" - POSSIBLY AN OFFENSIVE ANALOGY / MISNOMER

    Home 2009

  • Regarding the so-called "dynasties" - POSSIBLY AN OFFENSIVE ANALOGY / MISNOMER written by Augustus, December 16, 2008

    Home 2009

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