figurehead
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Kennedy last year had considered installing someone else to run the FDA while Makary remained a figurehead.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Naturally, this is the film’s opening scene, intended to communicate that managing Tourette’s is a lifelong endeavor, but that even the stuffiest, most proper royal figurehead can meet the condition with patience and understanding.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
But Hanson's biographer and filmmaker Dr Anna Broinowski says the One Nation leader has endured as a figurehead of right-wing politics because she paints herself as a "person of the people".
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
This "is what replacing looks like," added Polanski, a charismatic figurehead some liken to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and who only took charge of the Greens last September.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
Under him served four mates, freedmen all, and fifty slaves bound to the ship, each with a crude version of the cog’s figurehead tattooed upon one cheek.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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Revolution in Our Time
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Civilizations of East Asia and Southeast Asia, Lesson 4–7
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