patriarch
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Rubén Sr., who continues to be the patriarch of the Caballero family, is teaching his youngest grandson everything he knows.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Anthony Puzo, who oversees his father's literary estate, said Trigiani was astonished to learn that the character of Vito, the formidable Corleone family patriarch, was inspired by his grandmother.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
In the small village of Asasa, near Jenin in the West Bank, from which the family patriarch took his name, Hussein had been a highly regarded figure before his death last Friday from natural causes.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Although he hasn’t held any official post for five years, Raúl Castro is the patriarch of Cuba’s opaque power structure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 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
Vocabulary lists containing patriarch
Play by the Rules: Arch
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