1
as in veteran
a person with long experience in a specified area
considered the doyen of American art critics
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as in dean
the senior member of a group
he's the doyen of American museum directors, and his opinion has considerable weight
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Recent Examples of doyen
Senator Chuck Schumer, doyen of the party’s establishment wing and one of the country’s most-prominent Jewish politicians, never publicly backed Mamdani.
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Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
Sorkin, Kernen and Quick have been anchoring the show together for the last 14 years, with Kernen serving as the doyen of the group, going to back to its 1995 debut.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
My first tax boss was Stephen Land, a doyen of the international tax bar in New York, now retired.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The economist Robert Gordon, doyen of the skeptics, has noted that the average growth of U.S. output per worker was 2.3 percent a year between 1891 and 1972.
—Martin Wolf, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2015
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Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
Sorkin, Kernen and Quick have been anchoring the show together for the last 14 years, with Kernen serving as the doyen of the group, going to back to its 1995 debut.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
My first tax boss was Stephen Land, a doyen of the international tax bar in New York, now retired.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The economist Robert Gordon, doyen of the skeptics, has noted that the average growth of U.S. output per worker was 2.3 percent a year between 1891 and 1972.
—Martin Wolf, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doyen
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In goal, the team has brought back veteran goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, who allowed just three goals in the three games in Qatar.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
12 June 2026
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Cabrera is a veteran of both the MPWW and the Minnesota carceral system, and joins Lost Kite as a multimedia editor.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Ayanna Howard, the dean of Ohio State University's engineering college and appointee to the federal government's National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee, was chosen to be the next president of Spelman College in Atlanta, a historically Black liberal arts institution for women.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 June 2026
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Brenda McAleer, dean of the College of Professional Studies at the University of Maine at Augusta — which is preparing to offer a bachelor’s of applied public administration — said the degrees were designed for adults who already have some work experience or have taken some college courses.—
Emilia Otte,
Hartford Courant,
4 June 2026
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Appleberry was arraigned May 27 in Placer Superior Court, charged with causing injury to an elder or dependent adult, battery causing serious bodily injury, assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury and battery against an emergency worker.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
8 June 2026
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The workforce’s youngest cohort has been labeled lazy, entitled, and unrelentingly pessimistic by their elders.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
8 June 2026
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“Doyen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doyen. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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