patrician
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For many Americans, the nationally televised hearing was the first close look at the patrician, grey-haired former FBI director.
From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026
The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
It unfolds along the same lines as “The Perfect Couple” and “Nine Perfect Strangers,” both of which feature Nicole Kidman playing patrician enigmas — a trend that began with her turn in "Big Little Lies."
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2025
Her Clarissa was patrician yet superficial, though partial blame rests with the libretto, in which every other word of hers is “flowers” or “party.”
From New York Times • May 6, 2024
Richard Owen, the paleontologist who hovered over England’s natural historians like a patrician falcon, descended from the Royal College of Surgeons, to verify and catalog Darwin’s fossil skeletons.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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