patroness

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Recent Examples of patroness Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing Whitney Museum of American Art If another great American patroness with a namesake museum, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, had it her way her legacy would be her own sculptures. Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2024 Brigid later became popular in Irish Christian tradition as Saint Brigid, the patroness saint of Ireland. Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2024 On view are shell necklaces worn by Woolf and Bell, original sketches by Grant, and a silk Mariano Fortuny dress that once belonged to the patroness Lady Ottoline Morrell. Liam Hess, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2023 Beyoncé, 42, has figured out how to adjust her voice (her characteristic growl floats in falsetto) and adjust her body language (more benevolent, like a gilded patroness) to abstract the object and subject of the song. Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023 See All Example Sentences for patroness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for patroness
Noun
  • And how much, or how little, does Belinda know about what happened to her would-be benefactress?
    Dan Heching, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Breaking down the differences between playing the ruthless crime lord and the polished benefactress, Gasćon also noted that the role of Emilia was deceptively physical.
    Elaina Patton, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Signed last week, on the same day that the Department of Justice indicted James Comey, it is designed to facilitate the transfer of a social-media platform with a hundred and seventy million American users to a consortium that features several of the President’s political and financial benefactors.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • That means, for tax purposes, the value of the home resets to its market value on the date your benefactor died.
    Steve Hruby, Cincinnati Enquirer, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • More sizable contributions can score donors unseen content, signed posters, and even things like an associate producer credit and invitations to an in-person screening in Los Angeles.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The proof-of-concept study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, involved taking the nucleus, the part of the cell that contains most of its genetic information, from an ordinary human skin cell and transplanting it into a donor egg stripped of its own nucleus.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There, patrons are sure to be seen sipping on a sweet and tropical drink the color of a bright summer sunflower, or the bright tail patch of the official state bird.
    Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • While the pig is still at large, Indy Parks is asking park patrons to keep their animals on leashes and alert staff of any sightings.
    Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Patroness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patroness. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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