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He is the patriarch of the extended family.
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I think Overbearing Eurocentric Patriarchs would be perfect, but I don't suggest it. (source)Patriarchs = usually elderly men who are leaders of groups such as a families or tribes
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My father would appear any moment, the patriarch outraged at the insult to his child.† (source)
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To me he was a patriarch with authority over me, but he seemed to surrender that authority the moment I passed through his door.† (source)
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In addition, it had become generally known in the bar that anyone who could drink all four cocktails back to back earned the right to be called "The Patriarch of All Russia"—as soon as he regained consciousness.† (source)
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In an HBO documentary about eastern Kentucky hill people, the patriarch of a large Appalachian family introduces himself by drawing strict lines between work acceptable for men and work acceptable for women.† (source)
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Consecrated on the tenth of February in 1185 by Heraclius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Temple Church survived eight centuries of political turmoil, the Great Fire of London, and the First World War, only to be heavily damaged by Luftwaffe incendiary bombs in 1940.† (source)
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"But," he cried, "one of the Patriarchs!"† (source)
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I had seen those movies where the patriarch of the family is on his death bed and he calls for his estranged son so that he can make peace before he goes.† (source)
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I wrote speeches mainly for corporate chairmen, ruddy white-haired guys with big ravaged noses, patriarchs of this or that industry.† (source)
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The cages were empty—save one: Mahisha, our Bengal tiger patriarch, a lanky, hulking beast of 550 pounds, had been detained.† (source)
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During the times of the patriarchs, times of war, the birth of our nation, I get it.† (source)
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He looked sixty-five but might be eighty; he might be the senior partner of a law firm or the semi-retired patriarch of a construction company, but was more likely a rancher or a realtor.† (source)
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Druses, patriarchs, icons, bed-bugs, Romanesque remains, curious dishes of goat and sheeps' eyes, French and Turkish officials—all the catalogue of Near Eastern travel was provided for our amusement.† (source)
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The patriarch of the Howard clan was Samuel Howard.† (source)
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There were thousands that trusted in him right next to God Almighty, and they told stories about him and all the things that belonged to him that were like the stories of patriarchs and such.† (source)
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