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
  • Border czar Tom Homan told Fox News the operation was part of a larger criminal investigation into a network, and a lot of the people of interest were located in the Colony Ridge area.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Other administration officials who participated included White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and border czar Tom Homan.
    Alex Isenstadt, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Read: The new empress of self-help is a TikTok star Not long ago in American culture, vulnerability was largely associated with weakness.
    Maytal Eyal, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The L’Oréal family empress is also far behind LVMH CEO Arnault, whose wealth stands at $168 billion—although he’s lost $40 billion just this year owing to a luxury industry slowdown.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 28 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • It was commissioned by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife and later became his own resting place, as well.
    Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 25 Feb. 2025
  • In a final act of capitulation, the seven-year-old Song emperor, Zhao Bing, drowned himself to evade capture by the Mongol navy.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In addition to the titles of prince and princess, Jacques is also the Marquis of Baux and Gabriella is the Countess of Carladès.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2025
  • They were granted the titles of prince and princess after their grandfather, 76, ascended to the throne in 2022.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • First announced in December 2020, the project was expected to feature Anika Noni Rose reprising her role as Tiana from the 2009 film The Princess and the Frog, which revolved around Disney’s first Black princess.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Tiana was first announced in December 2020, and was envisioned as a musical featuring Anika Noni Rose reprising her role as Tiana from the 2009 film The Princess and the Frog, the film centering on Disney’s first Black princess.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 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
  • This mosque also holds the tombs of the commissioning sultan, his wife Haseki Hürrem, and Mimar Sinan himself. Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque The Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque is an example of how versatile Mimar Sinan was as an architect.
    Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The Blue Mosque was built by Sultan Ahmet I, the Ottoman Empire’s sultan between 1603 and 1617.
    Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The travels and travails of politicized sisterhood Oprah Winfrey’s and Whoopi Goldberg’s appearance together at the Academy Awards, to introduce a tribute to the late music arranger/producer and Hollywood mogul Quincy Jones, was the strangest way to begin Women’s History Month.
    Armond White, National Review, 7 Mar. 2025
  • In September 1997, NoDa real estate mogul Paul McBroom and partner George Gray reopened it as a live performance venue following renovations with 300 seats, according to Observer archives.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Czarina.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/czarina. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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