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patrician

[puh-trish-uhn] / pəˈtrɪʃ ən /




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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

Van Berchem was one of the city’s most respected financiers, a patrician figure with deep roots in Geneva society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 18, 2025

This was despite the fact that Bush didn't drink and his very patrician Connecticut lineage went all the way back to President Franklin Pierce.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

For decades she was dismissed as a paintbrush-wielding patrician unconnected to the make-it-new spirit of modern art.

From New York Times • May 16, 2024

Garzoni was a Jesuit, a Venetian patrician and a scholastic philosopher.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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