czarina

variants also tsarina or tzarina

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Recent Examples of czarina The children spent time with their older half-siblings from their parents’ first marriages, as well as their cousins, the five children of Nicholas and his czarina, Alexandra. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2025 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for czarina
Noun
  • Shortly before Trump’s flagship domestic policy bill passed in early July, border czar Tom Homan told a conservative Christian conference that immigration agencies were just getting started.
    Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 31 July 2025
  • Trump would take public comments until then, the White House and AI czar David Sacks (himself a tech mogul) said.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • There is only one queen at a time and should two reign, they are considered mother-daughter empresses.
    Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
  • On this day in 1762: Catherine the Great began her reign as empress of Russia after seizing control from her husband, Peter III.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • The Union Øye opened in 1891 and has hosted a number of historic celebrities from German emperor Wilhelm II to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer behind Sherlock Holmes.
    Kate Herz, Travel + Leisure, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Set 16 years after the original, Gladiator II follows Hanno (Mescal), a prisoner of war with a secret past who fights in the gladiator ring on behalf of Washington's scheming Macrinus, a former enslaved man hoping to overthrow Rome's twin emperors.
    EW.com, EW.com, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • Nobody was more badass to crank up on our speakers than the one and only prince of darkness - Ozzy Osborne!
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
  • Journey with Marie and her valiant Nutcracker prince to the Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy to experience a classic story with distinctly local flair.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • Born in 1919, the Canadian actress began acting in Winnipeg, voicing princesses on the radio before hosting another radio show in Toronto for overseas service members during World War II.
    Skyler Trepel, EW.com, 25 July 2025
  • On Thursday, the rising star released the video for his latest single, which stars the pop princess.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 24 July 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
  • Sleep in a Palace The Ottoman Empire may have faded away a century ago, but the Bosporus waterway is still flanked by palaces once occupied by sultans and their families or high-ranking courtiers.
    JOE YOGERST, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • The sultans and their successors have been replaced—first by the British East India Company, which ruled over Gujarat for nearly 50 years, and then, in the wake of the 1857 Indian Uprising, by the British government.
    Radha Vatsal June 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The disgraced Hip-Hop mogul is currently set to be sentenced on Oct. 3, 2025.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 29 July 2025
  • For the record, his name shouldn’t be confused with music mogul Quincy Jones.
    TJ Macias, Sacbee.com, 28 July 2025

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