patriarch
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“Instead of using the fields,” McGahern writes, the aging patriarch “sometimes felt as if the fields had used him.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
Family patriarch Joseph Guinnip joined the throngs of people who headed west to take hold of America’s Manifest Destiny, leaving Steuben County, N.Y., in the 1830s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
Lindo played the frustrated patriarch, Walter Lee, and won some strong reviews.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
Sir Jonathan plays Solomon Bevan, the patriarch of a farming family and the grandfather of Cefin, the eight-year old boy whose death has sent shockwaves through the town.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
Eventually, several family friends prodded a few amplifying rewards from the otherwise-loquacious patriarch.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing patriarch
Play by the Rules: Arch
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