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Recent Examples of figurehead
But now mired in a five-year NCAA Tournament drought and a coach removed from Jim Boeheim — the program’s totemic figurehead who won the 2003 national championship and more than 1,100 games during his 47-year tenure — what is Syracuse in the modern era, really?
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Brendan Marks, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
The move follows reports from former staff who recounted physical, verbal and psychological abuse primarily executed by the restaurant’s co-founder and figurehead, celebrity chef René Redzepi.
—Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
His early childhood coincided with his father’s rise as a revolutionary figurehead opposing the monarchy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 8 Mar. 2026
The protesters included secular left-wingers and nationalists as well as Islamists, but Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a fundamentalist cleric at that time exiled in France, emerged as the movement's undisputed figurehead.
—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 8 Mar. 2026
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Brendan Marks, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
The move follows reports from former staff who recounted physical, verbal and psychological abuse primarily executed by the restaurant’s co-founder and figurehead, celebrity chef René Redzepi.
—Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
His early childhood coincided with his father’s rise as a revolutionary figurehead opposing the monarchy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 8 Mar. 2026
The protesters included secular left-wingers and nationalists as well as Islamists, but Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a fundamentalist cleric at that time exiled in France, emerged as the movement's undisputed figurehead.
—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 8 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for figurehead
Noun
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Stephanie Divinski looks down at her shoulder puppet.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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Chikamatsu Monzaemon, who wrote the piece for Japan’s Bunraku puppet theater, lived during Japan’s 18th century isolationist Tokugawa period and is believed to have never read Shakespeare, who had penned the similar love story decades before Chikamatsu.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The city’s been the leader in that area for almost a year.—
Desiree Mathurin
April 8,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Apr. 2026
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The Hickman Mills School District is currently about $14 million in debt, a figure which district leaders attribute partly to financial mismanagement and partly to recent changes to the Jackson County property tax assessment cycle.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2026
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Last July, a K-9 sniffed out $1 million worth of cocaine in a Chicago drug bust.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Tucked between the second and third-floor staircases is a life-size statue of a nude woman leaning forward, her elbows resting on a pedestal displaying a bronze bust of the same statue.—
Jennifer Cannon,
Vanity Fair,
7 Apr. 2026
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During the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Sofia’s brother, the late King Constantine II of Greece, won a gold medal as helmsman of the boat Nereus in Gulf of Naples.—
Stefania Conrieri,
Vanity Fair,
5 Feb. 2026
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Tether, the largest digital asset company on the planet, which has the largest global stablecoin market share, has just hired U.S. crypto kid Bo Hines, formerly the Director of the White House’s Crypto Council, as their CEO helmsman for their U.S. business.—
Lawrence Wintermeyer,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Use daily for improvement in the look of smile lines, forehead wrinkles, marionette lines, skin hydration, skin elasticity, volume and plumpness.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
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Natalie Haynes fleshes out the backstories of her cast—Jason, a handsome ship captain on a quest for the Golden Fleece, the scheming sorceress Medea, and Olympian deities toying with mortals like marionettes—and imbues them all with contemporary vibes.—
Hamilton Cain,
Time,
3 Mar. 2026
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As party chief, Lam has led Vietnam’s biggest bureaucratic overhaul since the 1980s, cutting jobs, merging ministries, redrawing provincial boundaries and advancing major infrastructure projects.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
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At the time, Kansas City police chief and former FBI agent Lear Reed was on a campaign to clean up the police force and remove the lingering influences of Pendergast.—
Patrick Salland,
Kansas City Star,
7 Apr. 2026
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While the global economy has conspired for decades to bring down the cost of dolls and footballs, the biggest expenses of raising kids—childcare, summer camp, music lessons, babysitting, college tuition, health care—all suffer from Baumol’s cost disease.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
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Zara Larsson and Olandria, with their Bratz-doll-level glam by makeup artists Sophia Sinot and Ngozi Esther Edeme.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
8 Apr. 2026
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He’s also been beloved by his organizations, was named the Rockets’ captain this year and has always been in good favor with Hockey Canada.—
Scott Wheeler,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Boston captain Megan Keller, Susanna Tapani and Jamie Lee Rattray each had a goal.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Figurehead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/figurehead. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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