matriarch
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"The Godfather is a page turner," Trigiani wrote, "but when I searched for the matriarch, she was sorely missing."
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
She worked her way up in the celebrity and marketing world, which is where she met Jens Grede, her husband and business partner, as well as Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
The same, he said, is true of Huerta — who “remains a matriarch of our Latino community.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
By the time she put the property on the market, the reality TV matriarch confirmed that she had moved out and into another estate she purchased in the same tony community of Hidden Hills.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026
There was no explicable way she knew it, but she sensed this woman was the leader of this peculiar group, its matriarch.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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