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matriarch

noun as in ruler

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In 2018, family matriarch Kris Jenner insisted that the property was worth $60 million while responding to a post about the dwelling on X.

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Digital advertising billboards in the Thai capital are displaying towering black tributes to the royal matriarch, while citizens have been asked to wear dark tones and curtail celebratory public events.

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Sirikit held a dual reputation as a fashionista and the nation's caring matriarch, with some Western media featuring her on magazine covers and comparing her to former US first lady Jackie Kennedy.

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In 2004 she published her memoirs Annabel: An Unconventional Life, where she recalled her aristocratic childhood, glamorous social life in 1960s Swinging London to her role as matriarch and grandmother.

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Orianna Halloran is a matriarch drunk with power when members of the extended Halloran family receive the strange news that doomsday is nigh, and only their grand house and its occupants will survive.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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