czarina

variants also tsarina or tzarina

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Recent Examples of czarina The children spent time with their older half-siblings from their parents’ first marriages, as well as their cousins, the five children of Nicholas and his czarina, Alexandra. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2025 But this all comes at the end of this addictively chronicled history, in six parts, of a deluded autocrat and his equally imperious czarina, German-born and the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 27 June 2019 There is a new gambling czarina — Governor Charlie Baker appointed Cathy Judd-Stein to the post in January. Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019 Almost to the end, the czar and czarina—secure in their faith that they are adored—scoff at all indicators to the contrary as rumors or malicious lies. Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 27 June 2019 Tamim’s younger sister, Mayassa, is Qatar’s culture czarina — an art world behemoth who, at the age of 30, had an estimated annual budget of $1 billion. Written By Declan Walsh; Photographs By Tomas Munita, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018 There, King Stanislaw II August Poniatowski was trying to rebuild the nation’s strength despite the menacing influence of Russian czarina Catherine the Great, his former lover and patron. Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017 Rumor and street culture—jokes, postcards, sayings, bawdy plays performed in saloons—changed the image of the czar and the czarina, desacralized them, before and during the war. Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017 And Thrive Global, the wellness-crusading company that new media czarina Arianna Huffington founded nearly a year ago, didn’t invent downtime. Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for czarina
Noun
  • While the dire wolves were promoted by investor George R.R. Martin, this latest project started with a pitch from Lord of Rings director and unofficial New Zealand tourism czar Peter Jackson, whose films introduced the world to the stunning mountain ranges and grassy plains of his homeland.
    Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2025
  • As Circ’s sourcing czar, Vellanki-Seijge has a personal stake in all this.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • She's successfully become the first artist to wrap herself in the essence of the culture's spirit like an empress in new clothes.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • Brands relying on a single, all-powerful figure risk obsolescence when cultural winds shift, as Vogue continues to experience under an empress who seemingly only takes advice from a mirror.
    Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Ginza is also just a short walk from the Imperial Palace, which is the main residence of the emperor of Japan.
    Terry Elward, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • Ridley Scott’s 2023 film Napoleon tracks the emperor’s rise and fall through his relationship to his first wife.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • All retained their titles of prince and princess, but these titles will become personal and any future spouses or children will not have a right to them.
    Alex Apatoff, People.com, 15 July 2025
  • Bailey is Fiyero, a prince and popular student at Shiz University, while Goldblum plays the iconic Wizard.
    Daysia Tolentino, EW.com, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • The grosgrain purple-and-green chest ribbon — the colors of the All England club — add to the princess’s martial flair.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
  • The 10-year-old princess joined mom Kate Middleton, dad Prince William and older brother Prince George at the gentlemen's singles final on July 13, cheering on Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner from the front row of the Royal Box at Centre Court.
    Stephanie Petit, People.com, 13 July 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
  • Attracting everyone from sultans and princes to Charlie Caplin and Winston Churchill in its glory days, Impérial Palace is still the place to be more than a century later—and the views don’t get better than the top floor Imperial Suite, where a terrace shows off 360-degree vistas of Lake Annecy.
    Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2025
  • Following his armies’ conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman sultan Mehmed II famously transformed the Hagia Sophia, built as a Christian church, into a mosque.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • The man was identified as Zdravko Bilic, the husband of skincare mogul Gry Tomte, 9News, 7News and News.com.au reported, citing police.
    Nicole Acosta, People.com, 15 July 2025
  • The donor pool has featured some of the most prominent billionaire philanthropists in the country: the Adelson family, Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus, Oracle founder Larry Ellison and entertainment mogul Haim Saban, who sits on the group’s board.
    Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 14 July 2025

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“Czarina.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/czarina. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.

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