monarch
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Working with other volunteers, Smee has helped remove invasive plants and plant native species, including 30 oak trees that attract local wildlife like the endangered monarch butterfly, mountain lions and bobcats.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
The British monarch is its supreme governor, while the Archbishop of Canterbury is seen as the spiritual leader of Anglicans worldwide.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
These were pushed forward in the 16th century during the Protestant Reformation, when both England and Scotland embraced the new faith, and after 1603, when both countries shared a single monarch.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
Putting the monarch through his paces, the 22-year-old explained: "First, you load up the tracks and then play this one. There are so many buttons. Once you know what to do, it's easy."
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
But love, which had, perhaps, like a benevolent monarch, swelled the population of his neighboring kingdom, Death, had not himself descended: they owed him no allegiance here.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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