empress
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I had done so many things, but people probably knew me most for “Maleficent,” but it was then fun to be in “The Great” and I’m playing an empress, but she’s not the Disney version.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
In a rare interview, his mother, the former empress Farah Pahlavi told AFP from her home in Paris in written answers to questions there was "no turning back" after the wave of protests.
From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026
Among the stolen pieces was a large, diamond-encrusted bow brooch that belonged to the same empress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
Her climb from lifestyle author to homemaking empress, along with her fall and brief imprisonment, spawned endless special reports, gossip columns, parodies, and unauthorized biographies both serious and salacious.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024
I felt like an empress on the way to school.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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Recording from his home in Pasadena, he has played men and women of all ages, races, nationalities and abilities, as well as “postapocalyptic people living in trees and empresses of fictitious planets,” he notes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025
For a long while in history, the women cheered in Canyon Of Heroes parades tended to be queens or princesses or empresses.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2019
I postponed my research on Sims, believing him to be an altruistic outlier who could be a balm in my distressing work: someone who, according to one statue’s inscription, treated “alike empresses and slaves”.
From Nature ● Sep. 17, 2017
Regent uncles, dowager empresses, concubines, brothers… all end up doing the wrong thing.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2012
The result of this conflict of opinion between the rival empresses was that the policy of Theodosius was always wavering; he was consistent neither in orthodoxy nor heterodoxy.
From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain
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