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Cookware This is something for the big-splashy-meal cook in your life—the king of the standing rib roast, the empress of the whole pig on a spit, the generalissimo of the hundred-person clam bake.
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
Archaeologists subsequently uncovered a platform at the site with statue bases inscribed with the names of 14 Roman emperors and empresses.
—Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
Directed by Scott's son, Jake Scott, Kelce stars in the commercial as a gladiator alongside the other athletes and Megan, 29, who plays an empress.
—Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2024
Partnering with Pepsi, the Houston rapper sits as an empress, celebrating the return of the NFL season and the release of Paramount Pictures’ Gladiator II in theaters this fall.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 5 Sep. 2024
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
Archaeologists subsequently uncovered a platform at the site with statue bases inscribed with the names of 14 Roman emperors and empresses.
—Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
Directed by Scott's son, Jake Scott, Kelce stars in the commercial as a gladiator alongside the other athletes and Megan, 29, who plays an empress.
—Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2024
Partnering with Pepsi, the Houston rapper sits as an empress, celebrating the return of the NFL season and the release of Paramount Pictures’ Gladiator II in theaters this fall.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 5 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for empress
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For a few months during the winter of 1803 to 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte showed the tapestry at the Napoleon Museum, as the Louvre was briefly known during the French emperor’s reign.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 Mar. 2025
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The fruit was heralded as far back as the year 1279 as the preferred fruit of the royal court and emperors.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Mar. 2025
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Despite failing to produce a breakthrough, the meeting illustrated the convening reach of the crown prince and his intention to act as a diplomatic go-between in the Ukraine-Russia war.—
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen,
The Conversation,
14 Mar. 2025
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Recommended Safety As Trump proves unreliable, Europe rushes to firm up defenses on its own Saudi oil also gives the crown prince sway over the global supply of crude and its price.—
Ned Temko,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 Mar. 2025
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Additionally, for its axing of a transgender storyline in the show Win or Lose, its casting of an openly Christian character in the same show, and pulling the plug on its Tiana princess series which would have featured Disney's first Black princess.—
Marni Rose McFall,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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Last year, the princess and her family moved back to Sweden after living in Florida in recent years.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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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
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THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.—
Cole Kazdin,
Los Angeles Magazine,
14 July 2017
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Marlene Daut’s deep dive into Haiti’s first — and only — king reads like a historical novel of a bygone era with Black princes and knights, an elaborate dress code and a palace, Sans-Souci, to match.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
20 Mar. 2025
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This year, Todd Hurley is Mr. Pat, the parade’s king, and Mary Fischer is Miss Shamrock, the parade’s queen.—
Craig Lassig,
Twin Cities,
19 Mar. 2025
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This mosque also holds the tombs of the commissioning sultan, his wife Haseki Hürrem, and Mimar Sinan himself. Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque The Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque is an example of how versatile Mimar Sinan was as an architect.—
Kaitlyn McInnis,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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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
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Their naming of a fentanyl czar in Canada is important.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Mar. 2025
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Crypto czar says public has 'lost out on over $17 billion' in bitcoin valueWhite House Crypto czar David Sacks argued taxpayers have lost out on billions because earlier administrations never took advantage of bitcoin in the government's possession.—
Selina Wang,
ABC News,
7 Mar. 2025
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By contrast, given Russia's dominant role in the CU, joining that group would transform Yanukovych into a satrap of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whom Yanukovych regards as the avatar of Russian arrogance.—
Rajan Menon,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Oct. 2011
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The quick collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satraps unsettled both nations.—
Christian Schneider,
National Review,
21 Dec. 2023
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“Empress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empress. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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