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“Yes, but we’re moving up,” Cuevas replied, clutching a Mexican flag emblazoned with St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of lost causes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

China is also the chief patron and arms supplier of Pakistan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Here the enduring wisdom of Indian spiritual philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti, Ojai’s informal patron saint, serves even to hold a recent incursion of ultra-rich to account.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

She became a life peer in the 2010 Dissolution Honours List and is also patron of an animal welfare charity.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

In a psychological blow, Mutal captured the effigy of a Kaan patron deity—an enormous supernatural jaguar—that its army carried into battle.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

"I felt terrible," he said, full of regret that he did not tell patrons to evacuate at the first sign of fire.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Attending to the patrons is Sterling Lockwood, a 29-year-old American woman whose job title is concierge and keeper of secrets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

All of the other patrons decline; there are better ways to spend this one precious life.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

Dame Cally Palmer, chief executive of the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, said they were "honoured" to have the Prince and Princess of Wales as joint patrons.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

With your ticket in hand, you follow a continuous line of patrons into the circus, watching the rhythmic motion of the black-and-white clock as you wait.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern