czarina

variants also tsarina or tzarina

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of czarina But this all comes at the end of this addictively chronicled history, in six parts, of a deluded autocrat and his equally imperious czarina, German-born and the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 27 June 2019 There is a new gambling czarina — Governor Charlie Baker appointed Cathy Judd-Stein to the post in January. Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019 Almost to the end, the czar and czarina—secure in their faith that they are adored—scoff at all indicators to the contrary as rumors or malicious lies. Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 27 June 2019 Tamim’s younger sister, Mayassa, is Qatar’s culture czarina — an art world behemoth who, at the age of 30, had an estimated annual budget of $1 billion. Written By Declan Walsh; Photographs By Tomas Munita, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018 There, King Stanislaw II August Poniatowski was trying to rebuild the nation’s strength despite the menacing influence of Russian czarina Catherine the Great, his former lover and patron. Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017 Rumor and street culture—jokes, postcards, sayings, bawdy plays performed in saloons—changed the image of the czar and the czarina, desacralized them, before and during the war. Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017 And Thrive Global, the wellness-crusading company that new media czarina Arianna Huffington founded nearly a year ago, didn’t invent downtime. Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2017 The Russian Poles see the new czarina, Marina, a proud Pole, as a champion. Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 31 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for czarina
Noun
  • That was evident during the citywide immigration raids attended by Trump’s border czar Tom Homan and the TV personality Dr. Phil in January — and now in Wednesday’s courthouse arrests.
    Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
  • Just two weeks into his tenure as the FDA’s new vaccine czar, Prasad seems to be taking the first steps toward turning this rhetoric into reality.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • The coins, featuring the faces of 11 Roman emperors and empresses, were likely owned by a wealthy individual.
    Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
  • In First Steps, Garner plays Shalla-Bal, the immortal empress of the plant Zenn-La and Norrin’s lover.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Named after the last Aztec emperor, who was executed by the Spanish conquerors in 1525, it was built in Spain in 1981 and acquired by the Mexican Navy to train cadets and officers.
    Michelle Watson, CNN Money, 19 May 2025
  • On May 5, 1862, the French army — white, European, wealthy — invaded Mexico to install a puppet emperor.
    Hashim Coates, Denver Post, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • In March 2024, Prince Joachim and Princess Marie gave an interview to The Washington Post in Washington, D.C., where the prince works as a defense industry attaché at the Danish Embassy.
    Meredith Kile, People.com, 28 May 2025
  • Off the back of that viral video, a fan of Harry and Meghan Markle suggested the prince was the most obvious example, posting several videos of Harry on royal engagements.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Take her frothy blue Chanel couture princess gown, or her golden sequined Valentino gown with a plunging neckline.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 25 May 2025
  • Of course, Lilo & Stitch’s success won’t ever provide an excuse for Snow White’s failings, but at least the film’s booming box office will help erase some of the painful memories the live-action princess movie flop created in the past few months since its release.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2017
  • THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.
    Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017
Noun
  • There remains a deep local respect for the sultan, however, even if it is not always captured in elite perspectives.
    Jon Emont, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2015
  • One of the mandates handed down to the present sultan, Haitham bin Tariq, who succeeded Qaboos in 2020, is to usher the country into a sustainable future.
    Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The outage occurred as Elon Musk, the tech mogul who owns X, visited the White House on Friday, where President Trump held a press conference in the Oval Office thanking Musk for his service to the administration in leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 May 2025
  • What To Know The tech mogul entered politics last year with the explicit purpose of getting Trump elected for a second term as president, spending more than $75 million in the process.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025

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