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It’s also in this house where Mario Conde, the principal character of Padura’s work, was born.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2024

Its principal character, non-Jewish, is a magazine writer, who is instructed to approach the whole issue, or problem, from a new angle.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

Josephus is a principal character in the film's Roman Empire segment.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2022

Michael Cunningham, who came here in connection with his novel “The Hours,” in which Virginia Woolf is a principal character, said that Woolf’s house looks like a graduate student’s apartment compared with her sister’s home.

From New York Times • May 9, 2017

Rush, the principal character in a popular folk-lore story translated from the German.

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