empress

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Recent Examples of empress If physics is the queen of science, then mathematics is the empress. Big Think, 16 Jan. 2025 She was set to flee the country to escape the clutches of an ancient evil empress who happened to be her wicked stepmother. Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025 Thanks to another Russian empress, the museum has something else to offer: cats. Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025 Catherine’s collection soon ballooned as the empress amassed 4,000 paintings, 38,000 books, 10,000 engraved gems, 10,000 drawings, and 16,000 coins and medals. Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for empress
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Noun
  • The former emperor will undergo tests at the University of Tokyo Hospital after signs of myocardial ischemia were found during a regular checkup last month, NHK reported, citing the Imperial Household Agency.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 5 May 2025
  • Regardless, the Chinese emperors seem to have many attributes in common with the current U.S. president.
    Frank Lavin, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
Noun
  • Pakistan laid claim to the territory, while the prince chose India.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 14 May 2025
  • The crown prince's decision to meet Trump personally stood in stark contrast to President Joe Biden's 2022 visit, when a provincial governor met Air Force One.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Fulfilling the prompt, Phoenix delivers dominatrix, and kind of ignoring it, Deja gives a Disney princess mashup.
    Chris Feil, Vulture, 9 May 2025
  • Among the potential culprits: elite matchmaker Margo Clarke (Retta), plastic surgeon Dr. Vanessa Holmes (Gina Gershon), tech CEO Quinn Powell (Elizabeth Lail), former mafia princess Pupetta Del Ponte (Alyssa Milano) and decluttering guru Freya Frostad (Mary-Louise Parker).
    Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2017
  • THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.
    Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017
Noun
  • Visit the Binnenhof, one of Europe’s oldest parliamentary buildings and stroll past Noordeinde Palace, the working palace of the Dutch king.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • The heart king may not be pulling its full weight but might provide a discard.
    Deb Harvell, Arkansas Online, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • One of the mandates handed down to the present sultan, Haitham bin Tariq, who succeeded Qaboos in 2020, is to usher the country into a sustainable future.
    Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Rather, throughout the 50 years of Sultan Qaboos’s reign, there was an effort to keep Omani culture intact, while modernizing to have the best of things (including, in Muscat, a dazzling opera house, a passion project for the music-loving sultan).
    Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The bitcoin price has smashed $100,000 per bitcoin for the first time since February, with traders surprised by U.S. president Donald Trump’s crypto czar David Sacks issuing a rare bitcoin price prediction.
    Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
  • Warren also sent a letter to the OGE questioning a White House waiver granted to David Sacks, the White House AI and crypto czar.
    MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • By contrast, given Russia's dominant role in the CU, joining that group would transform Yanukovych into a satrap of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whom Yanukovych regards as the avatar of Russian arrogance.
    Rajan Menon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2011
  • The quick collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satraps unsettled both nations.
    Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023

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“Empress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empress. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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