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Recent Examples of patriarchal
Body types, hair types, identifiably cultural features, and other cosmetic and aesthetic traits that deviate from white, patriarchal beauty standards are not accurately accounted for.
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Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
Hinako battles not just against her own mind, but with the rigid patriarchal norms and pressures of the era.
—Vincent Acovino, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
But the message — a patriarchal, pseudo-religious, all-American blood oath passed down from fathers to sons — lives on.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
The bonds in Task are between men and other men, whether the backdrop is a barroom or a church; the loyalties, power structures, rivalries, and affections are all patriarchal.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
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Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
Hinako battles not just against her own mind, but with the rigid patriarchal norms and pressures of the era.
—Vincent Acovino, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
But the message — a patriarchal, pseudo-religious, all-American blood oath passed down from fathers to sons — lives on.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
The bonds in Task are between men and other men, whether the backdrop is a barroom or a church; the loyalties, power structures, rivalries, and affections are all patriarchal.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for patriarchal
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The Olivier honors included an unprecedented Best Supporting Actor award to the puppeteers who operate the tiger named Richard Parker (named so because of a clerical error in filing after his capture).—
Rick Mauch,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Sep. 2025
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That is why, despite the unyielding stance of Iran’s clerical leaders in public, Tehran prefers diplomacy to resolve a decades-long dispute with the West over its nuclear program.—
Parisa Hafezi,
USA Today,
23 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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Yet that same 30-year period saw a flurry of research and activity to try to reduce geriatric falls and their potentially devastating consequences, from hip fractures and brain bleeds to restricted mobility, persistent pain, and institutionalization.—
Paula Span,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Even before she was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska (2002), the 95-year-old actor had been a go-to Everygrandma, doling out enough geriatric sass to make the Golden Girls bow down yet doing so in the most polite, Midwestern way imaginable.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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Archbishop Shawn McKnight has launched a preliminary canonical investigation into the issue as well, the archdiocese said, and Storey has been temporarily suspended from priestly ministry, including celebrating Mass and performing pastoral duties.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
22 Sep. 2025
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The text records royal decrees including tax relief during poor Nile floods; donations to temples; the creation of a new priestly office; a festival tied to the heliacal rising of Sirius; and a calendar reform introducing a leap day every four years.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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The rest of the world should learn from Europe’s failures, and not burden its relatively younger and poorer citizens with funding benefits for its relatively wealthy and retired elderly ones.—
Renaud Foucart,
Time,
28 Sep. 2025
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Noguera was assigned to assist elderly prisoners as part of a prison program for inmates with disabilities.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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But the show’s matriarchal power structures, which involved women like Mare forever cleaning up the messes their male relatives made, were carefully shaded.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
17 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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Another major reason Denmark didn’t focus on the Americas was a 1493 papal bull from Pope Alexander VI.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
23 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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The club now hosts the Ally Challenge, a senior event on the PGA Champions Tour.—
John Wisely,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Patriarchal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patriarchal. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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