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Recent Examples of figurehead
Absent from the billboards and the state media coverage is Suu Kyi, for decades the figurehead of Myanmar’s struggle for democracy.
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Ross Adkin, CNN Money, 27 Dec. 2025
The circulation of wedding photos featuring guns underscores the enduring cultural and political divisions around his case and his role as a conservative figurehead, particularly among supporters of the Second Amendment.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
In Göring's cell, with his superiors pressuring him to find out what the Nazi figurehead might say on the stand, Kelley asks the military commander what drew him to Hitler.
—NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
Rupert, now 94, will continue in a figurehead capacity as chairman emeritus of the companies, maintaining ceremonial leadership but no direct voting control.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
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Ross Adkin, CNN Money, 27 Dec. 2025
The circulation of wedding photos featuring guns underscores the enduring cultural and political divisions around his case and his role as a conservative figurehead, particularly among supporters of the Second Amendment.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
In Göring's cell, with his superiors pressuring him to find out what the Nazi figurehead might say on the stand, Kelley asks the military commander what drew him to Hitler.
—NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
Rupert, now 94, will continue in a figurehead capacity as chairman emeritus of the companies, maintaining ceremonial leadership but no direct voting control.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for figurehead
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Maxwell made Giuffre and the former prince pose with the puppet, Giuffre wrote, positioning one of its hands on Giuffre's breast.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
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Along the way, people both inside and outside the union have labeled Meyer as a puppet of powerful agent Scott Boras, a charge both Boras and Meyer have vigorously denied.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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After deliberations stretching across three weeks, the Sacramento City Council appointed Tuesday a new leader for a local agency tasked with overseeing public housing.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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With Jackson’s death Tuesday, leaders across the region reflected on a legacy that helped shape a generation of local activism and public service — none more so than Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, a close friend for more than five decades.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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After a bit of a winter bust, more than a foot of snow fell onto the Big Bear Resort between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
18 Feb. 2026
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An immigration activist who works with community organizers in Oklahoma City to track ICE arrests and activities said the bust in the Asian district was conducted by Drug Enforcement Agency officers, not ICE, but that ICE was present, as those being arrested were immigrants.—
Ben Fenwick,
Oklahoma Watch,
18 Feb. 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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In telling after telling, Dorothy is presented as the docile marionette of whatever man’s pulling her strings at the moment.—
Lili Anolik,
Vanity Fair,
12 Jan. 2026
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Both characters become haunting part-marionette, part-human hybrids in the process (described aptly as the Lisaonette and the Abbionette by Adams), their limbs lengthening and eyes glowing.—
Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
11 Dec. 2025
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Zuckerberg’s court appearance follows that of Instagram chief Adam Mosseri last week.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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Leading the ticket alongside Magyar are international energy expert Anita Orbán (no relation to the prime minister), whom the party tapped as its prospective foreign policy chief, and former Shell executive István Kapitány, who would fill a senior economy position in a future Tisza government.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Feb. 2026
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Even Pop Mart, the toy maker behind the Labubu dolls, also operates a theme park in Beijing.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
18 Feb. 2026
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Autism is a spectrum, and no single doll can represent every child’s experience.—
Tiffany Hodges,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Feb. 2026
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The victory might have come at a high cost for Canada, which saw captain Sidney Crosby limp to the dressing room in the second period following a collision with Gudas along the boards.—
Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Canada was trailing 2-1 at the time of Crosby's injury, but rallied to tie the game at 2 thanks to a power play goal from Colorado Avalanche assistant captain Nathan MacKinnon.—
Patrick Damp,
CBS News,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Figurehead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/figurehead. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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