1
as in veteran
a person with long experience in a specified area
considered the doyen of American art critics
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as in dean
the senior member of a group
he's the doyen of American museum directors, and his opinion has considerable weight
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Recent Examples of doyen
Watching these doyens of programming create Go was like seeing Scorsese, De Niro, and Pesci reunite for The Irishman.
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Sheon Han, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2024
In another expansive move, The Mediapro Studio, the content arm of Grup Mediapro, has acquired Fresco Film, the doyen of Spanish production service companies.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 26 July 2024
Biden’s fundraiser, hosted by fashion journalism doyen Wintour, cost $1,000 each for tickets.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 June 2024
Court filings have revealed that in 2017, business planners at ExxonMobil—the doyen of international oil and gas firms—were already assuming a tax on carbon dioxide emissions in the OECD countries of $60 per metric ton by 2030.
—Andrew S. Erickson, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2021
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Sheon Han, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2024
In another expansive move, The Mediapro Studio, the content arm of Grup Mediapro, has acquired Fresco Film, the doyen of Spanish production service companies.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 26 July 2024
Biden’s fundraiser, hosted by fashion journalism doyen Wintour, cost $1,000 each for tickets.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 June 2024
Court filings have revealed that in 2017, business planners at ExxonMobil—the doyen of international oil and gas firms—were already assuming a tax on carbon dioxide emissions in the OECD countries of $60 per metric ton by 2030.
—Andrew S. Erickson, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doyen
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The Army veteran and former Fox News host has a breezy path to confirmation given the lack of opposition among the Senate's Republican majority.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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The company also gave itself a five-year target of increasing the number of underrepresented employees, including women, and in the U.S., those who identify as Black, Hispanic and Native American, as well as veterans or those with disabilities.—
Emily Peck,
Axios,
15 Jan. 2025
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Chuck Goudie, Chicago media's dean of investigations, is no longer on the air at ABC7.—
Justin Kaufmann,
Axios,
17 Jan. 2025
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Kimberly Dodd, dean of Michigan State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, is an expert in outbreak response for emerging infectious diseases.—
Kimberly Dodd,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2025
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Therefore the products offered to their parents’ generation is not suitable for this generation of elders.—
Sara Zeff Geber, PhD,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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On New Year's Eve, families often join together for dinner as people offer sacrifices to ancestors and pay respect to their elders.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Doyen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doyen. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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