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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Martin Wolf,
Foreign Affairs,
1 July 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doyen
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The veteran guard joined the Nuggets in 2025 on a one-year veteran minimum contract and went on to post one of the best shooting seasons of his career.
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Trump’s order calls for veterans from around the country to come for rehabilitative services.
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Pageants, deans' lists, graduations or military enlistments are not accepted.
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Before serving as president of the University of Alabama, Bell served as provost and professor of engineering at Louisiana State University and as dean of the School of Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Kansas.
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Morris, his wife, Debbie, the church, along with a group of current and former church elders and a former employee, still face a $1 million defamation suit filed by Cindy Clemishire and her father.
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Meanwhile, the Gen Zers now aging into homebuying represent a smaller cohort than their elders.
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“Doyen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doyen. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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