patriarch
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Although he hasn’t held any official post for five years, Raúl Castro is the patriarch of Cuba’s opaque power structure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
For four generations, the Sartori family of Plymouth, Wis., has been making Asiago cheese in a tradition that dates to patriarch Paolo Sartori, who hailed from a town near Asiago, Italy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Graham’s tweaked, sensitive patriarch is tantalizingly far from the heartbreaking dad of “Adolescence” and the gloriously oddball Riseborough makes the most of her faint-voiced mom’s severity.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
Dane starred as family patriarch Cal Jacobs on hit HBO teen drama show Euphoria.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
A patriarch with a long white beard, black skull cap and toothless gums presided over the vats with a big forked wooden stick.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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