patriarch

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“Instead of using the fields,” McGahern writes, the aging patriarch “sometimes felt as if the fields had used him.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

Graham’s tweaked, sensitive patriarch is tantalizingly far from the heartbreaking dad of “Adolescence” and the gloriously oddball Riseborough makes the most of her faint-voiced mom’s severity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Family patriarch Joseph Guinnip joined the throngs of people who headed west to take hold of America’s Manifest Destiny, leaving Steuben County, N.Y., in the 1830s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

Last November the court sentenced five of them to death including the clan's patriarch Bai Suocheng, who died of illness after his conviction, state media reported.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

But the operating chieftain, with deference of course to the patriarch, was a fine-looking man of about thirty-five, broad- shouldered and lithe, with the cream-and-berries complexion of a girl and crisp black curling hair.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck