hierarch

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Recent Examples of hierarch Earlier this month, Cupich took part in the papal conclave that elected Prevost as pope on May 8, stunning many Catholic scholars and hierarchs who didn’t anticipate an American would be named pontiff. Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025 His speech was criticized in a statement from the Antiochian, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Serbian American Orthodox hierarchs. Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Mar. 2025 His message on Monday was a confirmation from AI’s hierarch that the disruptors had been disrupted. Jason Abbruzzese, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2025 In the immediate aftermath of communism there was a flurry of revelations about collaboration between Russian hierarchs and the KGB, but soon the files snapped shut. The Economist, 11 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hierarch
Noun
  • On update calls, Andy Sriubas, a former advertising executive put in charge of the field offices, seemed unable to answer specific questions.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
  • Corporate executives often ask themselves how to participate in the benefits of deep tech innovation – but without trying to create this innovation based on just a few risky internal projects.
    Anis Uzzaman, Fortune, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • The 1984 rodeo made a profit of $23,000, but administrators cited additional and prohibitive costs as the reason for discontinuing future rodeos.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 May 2026
  • Woodbury city administrator Jeffrey Dahl said the city has a booming health care and retail industry, and the new Amazon facility is another asset to the city that will encourage resilience and business and career diversity.
    Talia McWright, Twin Cities, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • So McCarthy slid into the DMs (direct messages) of Artemis 2 commander and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 9 May 2026
  • Christopher Cann Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said in a public address that a strike on the Lebanese capital of Beirut killed a high-ranking Hezbollah commander.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • The detentions come after a handful of other arrests months earlier, but Fúnez has long been pinpointed by local environmental and religious leaders as the man who spearheaded the assassination.
    Marlon González, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • Unlike other Western leaders—and the foreign-policy establishment in Washington—Sánchez sees China in more pragmatic terms rather than as necessarily a strategic rival.
    Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Going underground Mark Thomson, CERN director general, revealed that CERN is supplying prototype detectors and giant cryostats for DUNE, while in parallel, US labs are providing superconducting magnets for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
  • One was a retired Air Force general, two others were not scientists but had worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and another had a security clearance but worked elsewhere.
    Faye Flam, Scientific American, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • The strike began in February, weeks before the WGA was set to enter negotiations with the major studios, with the workers accusing their employer of bargaining in bad faith.
    Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 9 May 2026
  • For now, Trump accounts will likely become a ubiquitous workplace benefit, just like 401k accounts, with employers matching employees’ contributions, Cruz said.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • BuzzFeed founder and current chief Jonah Peretti will transition to a new role as president of BuzzFeed AI.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • Cara Sylvester, Target's merchandising chief, told CNBC that families with children visit stores twice as much as the average shopper.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • Robert Penn Warren’s 1946 novel is the story of the rise and fall of a Southern populist, the Louisiana governor Willie Stark—a fictional Huey Long (even if Warren downplayed the likeness)—as told by Stark’s wisecracking, anguished, Hamlet-y henchman, Jack Burden.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
  • For a while, Porter was one of four women among the major candidates running for governor.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026

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“Hierarch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hierarch. Accessed 14 May. 2026.

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