dynast
Example Sentences
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His naïveté and intellectual stubbornness also led Lilla to believe, as late as 2016, that the Bushes and the Clintons would continue to be the dynasts of their respective parties.
From Salon
But the novel becomes more intriguing once you know its rural Virginian petty dynasts correspond to the Tudors at the height of British rule.
From Los Angeles Times
The dynast Gotabaya Rajapaksa was leading the administration at the time, and he had appointed his brothers and his nephew to his cabinet.
From New York Times
Farrar became the paper’s first crossword puzzle editor, the founding dynast of the Hapsburgs of the crossword empire.
From New York Times
But he is not the only dynast to be booted out.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
