patriarchs

plural of patriarch
as in fathers
a man who is the head of a family Investors worried that the aging patriarch was soon to be replaced atop the family business by his less reliable oldest son.

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Recent Examples of patriarchs Forty years after opening, Union Square Cafe is one of the prosperous patriarchs of the New York restaurant world. Christine Muhlke, Air Mail, 20 Sep. 2025 Popes and Orthodox patriarchs honor him, and Pärt’s music has received the highest levels of recognition, including Grammy Awards. Jeffers Engelhardt, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025 Leo drew attention to a joint statement by the Latin and Greek Orthodox patriarchs of Jerusalem, who announced that the priests and nuns in the two Christian churches in Gaza City would stay put, despite Israeli evacuation orders ahead of the Gaza City offensive. Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025 The ladle in a kitchen drawer leads her to the Big Dipper and Joseph’s pit and the wells dug by the patriarchs in the book of Genesis. Ilana Kurshan, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • The new season, which marks the first under iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network, will go beyond the original premise of interviewing famous fathers.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
  • What YouTube and these social platforms have done is allow people to create entire media groups speaking to very particular communities—to South Asian women or, say, gay fathers over forty.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But this video was never meant to portray dads in a negative way.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In the comments, many others agreed that this seemed to be a common occurrence for dads.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Smith and Christian’s respective grandfathers were their catalysts into vintage fashion.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Once the territory of grandfathers and sitcom nerds, sweater vests have had a resurgence over the last decade.
    Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Patriarchs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patriarchs. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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