figurehead

Example Sentences

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But Hanson's biographer and filmmaker Dr Anna Broinowski says the One Nation leader has endured as a figurehead of right-wing politics because she paints herself as a "person of the people".

From BBC

I was able to separate Chavez the man from the movement for which he was a figurehead.

From Los Angeles Times

There are some 95 million Anglicans around the world with the Archbishop of Canterbury as their spiritual figurehead.

From BBC

Simply getting Zuckerberg on the stand Wednesday was a coup for the plaintiffs and a potential liability for his company’s platforms, which must now contend with profound public distaste for the Meta figurehead.

From Los Angeles Times

Maggie Thatcher came a few years before Reagan, but they were closely allied and historically linked as figureheads of the triumphant New Right.

From Salon