figurehead

With the Red Army approaching, King Michael I, hitherto a figurehead, launches a palace coup and has Antonescu arrested.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The show argues that Lichtenstein—a figurehead of “appropriation art” before it was a term—embraced subjects and styles used my mass media in ways that make his work “strikingly prescient and remarkably relevant.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Last October, as Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham was the local figurehead during the grim reality of an attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in the city.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The Hungarian president is a largely figurehead role, but Baka's rule promises to be tempestuous.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Whatever we might think of this imposing man in his pointed hat, he is a figurehead who represents the will of Kilanga.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

In Colonial-era America, sculpture was a craft, not an art, its practitioners artisans who fashioned utilitarian objects like ships’ figureheads and shop signs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The attacks against AI figureheads have no demonstrable ties to one another, nor do they claim affiliation with any shared organization.

From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026

Han argues that movements do not require charismatic figureheads.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

There is no room for non-playing figureheads at a major tournament.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025

For indeed, we are nothing but figureheads to complex forces which seem to be under a kind of impulse.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White