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as in ruler
one who rules over a people with a sole, supreme, and usually hereditary authority
the ruling monarch of Britain at that time was Queen Elizabeth I
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as in magnate
a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field
the glitzy gala was attended by most of the reigning monarchs of the recording industry
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Recent Examples of monarch
The monarchs in Riyadh didn’t want the US cozying up with Iran, their chief rival in the region.
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Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 23 Mar. 2025
The queen, England’s longest-reigning monarch, died in September of that year at age 96.
—Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2025
During a state visit, foreign leaders are welcomed to Britain by the reigning monarch and are treated to a carriage procession to Buckingham Palace and a grand banquet.
—Anna Cooban, CNN, 20 Mar. 2025
The monarch, wearing a red tie and an Order of Canada lapel pin, congratulated Carney on his recent victory.
—Rob Gillies, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
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Your celestial ruler, Mercury, is retrograde and slipping back into Pisces — your 10th house of authority, career and public persona — urging you to take a second look at your professional goals and dreams.—
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His interest in sports analytics comes from his math teacher father, who handed out rulers to Trick-or-Treaters each year.—
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DeGeneres flipped another Montecito property—a five-bedroom, 10-bathroom compound—in February of last year to mining magnate Robert Friedland for $32 million.—
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The maid at Bizarre Bazaar magnate Zachary Beck’s estate?—
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The sovereign is known to reach for watercolors and has brought his paint set along for royal tours all over the world through the years.—
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Kerl will be in Sydney on Tuesday to try to meet the 75-year-old British sovereign again during his first tour to a Commonwealth realm since acceding the throne.—
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As stocks tanked following news of President Trump’s new tariffs, Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu got billions richer.—
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Robert Bass Robert Bass is a nephew of oil tycoon Sid Richardson and inherited $2.8 million after his uncle’s death in 1959.—
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But even there the story of a princess — daughter of an emperor — allows one to draw comparison to contemporary times.—
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In the end, he may be listed along with Roman emperors who ran amok like Nero and Caligula.—
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The king of action production powered forward with Cliffhanger (1993), starring Stallone and directed by Renny Harlin, a stellar man vs. nature and man vs. his past thriller.—
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In the early 1980s, Chamberlain gained a reputation as the king of the miniseries for his starring roles in Shogun, The Thorn Birds and Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story.—
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She's been linked to everyone from Leonardo DiCaprio to a Saudi prince, and was even married to Donald Trump Jr. for 13 years.—
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The former wife of President Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., once allegedly dated a former gang member, a Saudi Arabian prince and Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio.—
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The tender for its initial roster of teams had attracted a directory of the steel, cement and petrochemical barons who dominate the country’s economy: Tata Steel, JSW and Sanjiv Goenka among them.—
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Some of the same coal barons who celebrated Trump’s victory in 2016 soon went bankrupt.—
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“Monarch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monarch. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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