doyen

"Anyone who comes by, they greet you with 'Good morning,'" said Ben Barka, considered the doyen of Libyan fashion and who once counted Muammar Gaddafi's wife among her clients.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Sir Paul Smith, the doyen of British fashion, is flailing around in his office with two large rubber chickens and making them squeak them with gusto.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Mr. Dilenschneider, the doyen of American public relations, is the founder of the Dilenschneider Group, a strategic-counseling firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

The ANC said in a statement: “He was a globally acclaimed playwright, composer and producer. We have lost a true legend, a doyen, and a genuine ambassador of theatre.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

Lawrence’s position as doyen of the Rad Lab and Teller’s as the indispensable genius of thermonuclear technology made compromise impossible.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Today, a number of doyens in the recondite field of AI admit they don’t know where all this is headed.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

Putnam’s had kept Bates on after purchasing Grosset and Dunlap, and Bates had come to adore her well-earned senior status as one of the industry’s doyens.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2023

He was McGinley’s first introduction to art; to the downtown stars of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and the old New York doyens Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2020

Late field goal dooms Jets: The scheduling doyens at N.F.L. headquarters did not do the Jets any early-season favors.

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2016

One of the doyens of scientific testing of the shroud, Raymond Rogers of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, argued in 2002 that a simple chemical transformation could do the job.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2015