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empress

[em-pris] / ˈɛm prɪs /
NOUN
female ruler
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“Russia and Western Europe converged” under the empress, at least for a short while.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 17, 2026

In a rare interview, his mother, the former empress Farah Pahlavi told AFP from her home in Paris in written answers to questions there was "no turning back" after the wave of protests.

From Barron's Jan. 21, 2026

A crown of the empress Eugénie was left at the scene and is being examined to see if it is damaged.

From BBC Oct. 19, 2025

Her climb from lifestyle author to homemaking empress, along with her fall and brief imprisonment, spawned endless special reports, gossip columns, parodies, and unauthorized biographies both serious and salacious.

From Salon Oct. 30, 2024

The advice that rankled most came from Ward McAllister, factotum and chief slipperlick to Mrs. William Astor, empress of New York society.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Recording from his home in Pasadena, he has played men and women of all ages, races, nationalities and abilities, as well as “postapocalyptic people living in trees and empresses of fictitious planets,” he notes.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 23, 2025

I postponed my research on Sims, believing him to be an altruistic outlier who could be a balm in my distressing work: someone who, according to one statue’s inscription, treated “alike empresses and slaves”.

From Nature Sep. 17, 2017

Regent uncles, dowager empresses, concubines, brothers… all end up doing the wrong thing.

From BBC Oct. 9, 2012

As explained earlier, a few empresses wielded great power.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2012

In native gifts and force of character, and in her checkered history, the Empress Anne of Savoy deserves a place by the side of the earlier self-asserting empresses of Constantinople.

From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred




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