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Prince, The

American  

noun

  1. a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.


The Prince Cultural  
  1. (1513) The best-known work of Niccolò Machiavelli, in which he asserts that a prince must use cunning and ruthless methods to stay in power.


Example Sentences

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The interviews come as British police last week arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince, the most high-profile person caught up so far in the unfolding saga.

From Los Angeles Times

It isn’t just an errant prince, the critics say, but a former Labour cabinet member, Peter Mandelson, who has had his collar felt by the law.

From The Wall Street Journal

Larry now shares the No. 10 residence with JoJo and Prince, the Starmer family cats.

From Barron's

If Kennedy was an American prince, the lovely and stylish Bessette was his princess, loved, hated and swarmed at every turn by a predatory paparazzi.

From Los Angeles Times

“I think that there are some members of the family who are very possessive of John and his memory, and I understand that, but they don’t get to control how other people remember John,” said Steve Gillon, a historian, former friend of JFK Jr.’s and author of “America’s Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.”

From The Wall Street Journal