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Recent Examples of patriarchal
For starters, Carroll always aimed to lift women up, encouraging them to take charge in patriarchal spaces.
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Tomris Laffly, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
Women have become increasingly important in North Korea’s regime—something that is unprecedented in North Korea’s highly patriarchal society.
—Natasha Lindstaedt, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Compulsory heterosexuality is a theoretical framework coined by lesbian scholar Adrienne Rich in 1980 to describe how heterosexuality as an institution compels and coerces female sexuality for patriarchal purposes.
—Quispe López, Them., 27 Aug. 2025
This binary, patriarchal view of humanity is harmful to everyone — our sons and daughters alike.
—Laurie Gray, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
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Tomris Laffly, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
Women have become increasingly important in North Korea’s regime—something that is unprecedented in North Korea’s highly patriarchal society.
—Natasha Lindstaedt, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Compulsory heterosexuality is a theoretical framework coined by lesbian scholar Adrienne Rich in 1980 to describe how heterosexuality as an institution compels and coerces female sexuality for patriarchal purposes.
—Quispe López, Them., 27 Aug. 2025
This binary, patriarchal view of humanity is harmful to everyone — our sons and daughters alike.
—Laurie Gray, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for patriarchal
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That warrant was later corrected after a clerical error listed Menendez Abdala’s birth year incorrectly.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
3 Sep. 2025
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The Houthis are led by a family of clerical megalomaniacs who have been prophesying apocalyptic war since the early 2000s.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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View Comments The Friday event, which took place inside the Vatican’s apostolic palace, included a roundtable discussion on AI ethics and governance.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
20 June 2025
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The Friday event, which took place inside the Vatican’s apostolic palace, included a roundtable discussion on AI ethics and governance.—
CNN.com,
Mercury News,
20 June 2025
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Third, the letter writer and her family might want to consider engaging a geriatric care manager who could help them to identify supplementary services and connections in the local community that could go at least some way to alleviating her isolation.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Third, something the letter writer and her family might want to consider engaging a geriatric care manager who could help them to identify supplementary services and connections in the local community that could go at least some way to alleviating her isolation.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Denver Post,
10 Sep. 2025
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In 1997, Greenspan read an article in the Times about a group of geneticists who had tested the Y chromosomes of Jewish men who believed themselves to be part of an ancient priestly tradition called the cohanim.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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The priestly fraternity, named in honor of the anti-modernist Pope St. Pius X, was founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre as a response to liturgical reforms made in the Second Vatican Council (also known as Vatican II).—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
14 Aug. 2025
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The Cudahy couple purchased the building in South Milwaukee primarily for the living space in back to take care of an elderly uncle.—
Erik S. Hanley,
jsonline.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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For millions of elderly or disabled people, these were daunting or impossible options.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
8 Sep. 2025
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Bees are matriarchal, with a queen bee in charge of the hive.—
Elizabeth Bass Parman,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Nor does the film offer up much in the way of thematic substance beyond love (between women) is grand, men are mostly bad, and matriarchal societies are better than patriarchies.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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For centuries, the land was the private dwelling of emperors and pontiffs until 2014, when Pope Francis opened the papal gardens to the public.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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Supposedly his papal salary is in the neighborhood of $400,000.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The state’s senior senator, Jack Reed, is 75 and running for reelection next year.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Shaffi, a senior data architect at Amazon Web Services, is widely recognized for designing secure, large scale data infrastructures that power global enterprises.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Patriarchal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patriarchal. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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