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The show’s underpinned by the differences in character and country of Lady Cora and her formidable mother-in-law, the dowager Countess Violet Crawley, played by the equally formidable and much missed Dame Maggie Smith.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
22 July 2025 -
The empress dowager’s legacy Empress Dowager Ling was largely unsuccessful in her bid for power.—
Stephanie Balkwill,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2025
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revoked a ban that prevented the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and holding services.—
Claire Carter,
The Washington Examiner,
30 Mar. 2026
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The story of a working-class family and its patriarch’s hopes, dreams and frustrations is set in the 1950s.—
David L. Coddon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Sixteen years into the experiment, Twitter is a graybeard by internet years and by corporate standards.—
Matt Pearce,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Oct. 2022
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Joe Thornton, the Bruins' No. 1 draft pick in 1997, is now an NHL graybeard.—
Dan Shaughnessy,
BostonGlobe.com,
23 Sep. 2022
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“Grandam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandam. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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