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patrician

[puh-trish-uhn] / pəˈtrɪʃ ən /




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For many Americans, the nationally televised hearing was the first close look at the patrician, grey-haired former FBI director.

From Barron's Mar. 21, 2026

Van Berchem was one of the city’s most respected financiers, a patrician figure with deep roots in Geneva society.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 18, 2025

Cutler was struck by how Stewart’s experiences differed from the “childhood of privilege and formality” he had imagined, based on her patrician image.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 30, 2024

For decades she was dismissed as a paintbrush-wielding patrician unconnected to the make-it-new spirit of modern art.

From New York Times May 16, 2024

Richard Owen, the paleontologist who hovered over England’s natural historians like a patrician falcon, descended from the Royal College of Surgeons, to verify and catalog Darwin’s fossil skeletons.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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