czarina

variants also tsarina or tzarina

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Recent Examples of czarina 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 The Russian Poles see the new czarina, Marina, a proud Pole, as a champion. Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 31 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for czarina
Noun
  • Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass reversed course last week on her plan to pay her disaster recovery czar, Steve Soboroff, $500,000 for 90 days of work — compensation that would have been covered by private philanthropy.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Mayor Adams has committed to taking additional steps in working the the Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown, border czar Tom Homan said in a Friday morning TV appearance with the mayor.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Read: The new empress of self-help is a TikTok star Not long ago in American culture, vulnerability was largely associated with weakness.
    Maytal Eyal, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The L’Oréal family empress is also far behind LVMH CEO Arnault, whose wealth stands at $168 billion—although he’s lost $40 billion just this year owing to a luxury industry slowdown.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 28 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Republicans called Barack Obama an emperor for using his executive power to, among other things, simply defer federal immigration enforcement against young Dreamers that were broadly popular.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The site was part of a pleasure garden complex thought to be owned by the emperor, which is supported by the writings of Philo of Alexandria.
    Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • At one point, the prince was seen giving his then-girlfriend a kiss on the cheek!
    Stephanie Petit, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
  • And unlike the Danish prince, her righteousness is undermined by the fact that Clytemnestra murdered her husband on much the same impulse as hers, punishment for his brutal slaying of another daughter.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Each cheese stick’s plastic wrapper is emblazoned with a Disney princess.
    Judy Holmes, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This princess girls dress, $34.99 on Amazon, is available in sizes three to 14 years.
    Nora Colomer, Fox News, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.
    Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017
  • 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
Noun
  • The Blue Mosque was built by Sultan Ahmet I, the Ottoman Empire’s sultan between 1603 and 1617.
    Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The sultan is the second-longest reigning monarch, following the late Queen Elizabeth II.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Two more fans were reportedly ejected after getting into a shouting match with Mark Cuban, who sold the team to casino mogul Miriam Adelson and her family in 2023.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • From the enslaved women who set the tables for others to the moguls of today, the story of Black women in home and lifestyle is not one of erasure but of relentless reclamation.
    Essence, Essence, 11 Feb. 2025

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