empress
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The former empress was driven into exile with her husband, late pro-Western shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in January 1979 during a popular revolution that ousted the monarchy and brought the Islamic republic to power.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 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
A crown of the empress Eugénie was left at the scene and is being examined to see if it is damaged.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
She credits much of her fearlessness as a performer to her time spent on the Hulu series “The Great,” on which she played a fictionalized version of Russian empress Catherine the Great.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
The girl, who would grow up without a father, was named Theodora, after the scandalous empress of Byzantium whom Sourmelina admired.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
In February 1873 the two dowager empresses resigned their powers as regents.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
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