czarina

variants also tsarina or tzarina

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Recent Examples of czarina The children spent time with their older half-siblings from their parents’ first marriages, as well as their cousins, the five children of Nicholas and his czarina, Alexandra. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2025 But this all comes at the end of this addictively chronicled history, in six parts, of a deluded autocrat and his equally imperious czarina, German-born and the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 27 June 2019 There is a new gambling czarina — Governor Charlie Baker appointed Cathy Judd-Stein to the post in January. Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019 Almost to the end, the czar and czarina—secure in their faith that they are adored—scoff at all indicators to the contrary as rumors or malicious lies. Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 27 June 2019 Tamim’s younger sister, Mayassa, is Qatar’s culture czarina — an art world behemoth who, at the age of 30, had an estimated annual budget of $1 billion. Written By Declan Walsh; Photographs By Tomas Munita, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018 There, King Stanislaw II August Poniatowski was trying to rebuild the nation’s strength despite the menacing influence of Russian czarina Catherine the Great, his former lover and patron. Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017 Rumor and street culture—jokes, postcards, sayings, bawdy plays performed in saloons—changed the image of the czar and the czarina, desacralized them, before and during the war. Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017 And Thrive Global, the wellness-crusading company that new media czarina Arianna Huffington founded nearly a year ago, didn’t invent downtime. Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for czarina
Noun
  • The president campaigned fervently last year on the promise of mass deportations and appointed Tom Homan as his border czar to execute his agenda.
    Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
  • Border czar Tom Homan has voiced similar concerns, saying Sunday that 1,272 Iranian nationals were released into the U.S. during the Biden administration.
    Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Relevance Requires Evolution And An Open Mind Wintour’s disconnect from digital-native audiences shows legacy alone can’t protect relevance, particularly when she’s cultivated an environment where challenging the empress’s nudity becomes career suicide.
    Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Suitably, the hotel pays homage to the empress in numerous ways, from a signature suite to a turndown cookie in the shape of her pet deer.—Mary Winston Nicklin Read Afar’s full review of the Rosewood Schloss Fuschl.
    Jennifer Flowers, AFAR Media, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But equally recurrent is the West’s broader obsession with her family—Agrippina along with emperors Caligula, Nero, Augustus, and others.
    Literary Hub June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • Years ago, Hans Christian Andersen told a tale of an emperor who wore no clothes.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • The prince had problems reaching Balmoral, as communication with the rest of the family was limited.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 30 June 2025
  • Amid Warnings Tears as Amal Clooney Honors Girl Who Rejected 'Child Bride' Path The young prince was enthusiastically greeting royal fans at the start Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee celebrations when Charlotte reached over to pull his hand down.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • And, instead of having an exclusive party after her Saturday night performance, Charli turned up to Daniel’s DJ set at the festival’s San Remo bar, dancing until 2 a.m. with the masses — in a way that the Glasto princess only can.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 30 June 2025
  • Nowadays, the pint-size pop princess splits her time between New York and Los Angeles.
    Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2017
  • THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.
    Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017
Noun
  • Attracting everyone from sultans and princes to Charlie Caplin and Winston Churchill in its glory days, Impérial Palace is still the place to be more than a century later—and the views don’t get better than the top floor Imperial Suite, where a terrace shows off 360-degree vistas of Lake Annecy.
    Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2025
  • Following his armies’ conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman sultan Mehmed II famously transformed the Hagia Sophia, built as a Christian church, into a mosque.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • The media mogul has channeled that skill into delicious recipes, stylish and comfortable clothing, and, via her home collection, beautiful and functional furniture.
    Rachel Trujillo, People.com, 6 July 2025
  • Held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, the fireside-style conversation brought together Master P—No Limit Records founder turned multi-industry mogul—and an inspiring lineup of changemakers: Syrita Steib, Derwin Scott, Zach Jackson, and Spectacular Smith.
    Essence, Essence, 5 July 2025

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