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Recent Examples of empress
She was set to flee the country to escape the clutches of an ancient evil empress who happened to be her wicked stepmother.
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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
Read: The new empress of self-help is a TikTok star
Not long ago in American culture, vulnerability was largely associated with weakness.
—Maytal Eyal, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025
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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
Read: The new empress of self-help is a TikTok star
Not long ago in American culture, vulnerability was largely associated with weakness.
—Maytal Eyal, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for empress
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For centuries, the Chinese believed that their land was the center of the world and that their emperor held the mandate of heaven to govern it.—
Margaret MacMillan,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
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Was Trump thinking that the emperor can do no wrong?—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Apr. 2025
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This dream comes closer to becoming real when Elvira, and her beautiful new stepsister Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Naess) are invited to a society ball that the prince is hosting.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2025
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The prince met with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian to discuss regional cooperation.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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The princess, who has served as joint president of the UK’s Scouts association since 2020, wore the ensemble for her walk with a group of Scouts aged between 10 and 15 near the shores of Lake Windermere in northwest England.—
Rosa Rahimi,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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For the event, Everly went full pop princess in a fluffy pink crop top with matching cargo pants with tiny braids and face jewels.—
Rachel McRady,
People.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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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
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THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.—
Cole Kazdin,
Los Angeles Magazine,
14 July 2017
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The Prince of Wales’ attendance in place of the King is a modern tradition, and a statement to further establish William’s role as future king.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
24 Apr. 2025
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Charlotte on the other hand will likely be the future daughter or sister of a future king.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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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
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Some secular nationalists even went as far as to claim that Ottoman sultans such as Mehmet the Conqueror had invented religious tolerance and helped inspire the European Renaissance.—
Nick Danforth,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Jan. 2015
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The number of immigration arrests at workplaces has tripled since Trump took office, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said Monday.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
29 Apr. 2025
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Trump's border czar Tom Homan on April 28 said the administration deported 139,000 people in the first 100 days – putting the administration on track to remove roughly half a million people this year.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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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
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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 4 May. 2025.
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