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- noun Plural form of
vizier .
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Examples
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Muslim viziers commanded Jews to wear special badges, hats, or other distinctive clothing.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Muslim viziers commanded Jews to wear special badges, hats, or other distinctive clothing.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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While the caliph was drinking wine with his courtiers, he left the caliphate to his viziers, a clever, brutal family called the Barmakids.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Queens, replacing the viziers of Islamic chess sets, are wise but gloomy counselors, staring into the distance with their chins in their hands.
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While the caliph was drinking wine with his courtiers, he left the caliphate to his viziers, a clever, brutal family called the Barmakids.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Even the plot of the upcoming Prince of Persia will have in one way or another drawn from the popular lore of the Arabian Nights - evil viziers thwarted by the young princely hero.
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Egypt: Group seeks to ban A Thousand and One Arabian Nights 2010
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Mesmerized by the seductive beauty of ever more abstract mathematical models, academic economists became the high viziers of global capitalism, gained dominance in the social sciences, and soon relished the role of shamans who would diagnose and cure our most intractable societal ills.
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This created a secret Christian solidarity between several eunuchs, concubines, and viziers.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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When it was clear that the housing market was going poof, the ultra-senior viziers who attended the King were found more and more often stalking the mortgage department that suddenly held the key to the entire health of the firm.
Note to Lloyd Blankfein: CEO Stupidity Is the Best Defense Fortune 's Stanley Bing 2010
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When it was clear that the housing market was going poof, the ultra-senior viziers who attended the King were found more and more often stalking the mortgage department that suddenly held the key to the entire health of the firm.
Fortune 's Stanley Bing: Note to Lloyd Blankfein: CEO Stupidity Is the Best Defense 2010
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