as in dean
the senior member of a group
the elder statesman of the White House correspondents is finally retiring after nearly a half century of service
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Klein, who has yet to spend a full month in the majors, expressed his desire to learn from the bullpen’s elder statesmen.
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Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
And Democrats are no longer in need of an elder statesman to remind voters of the promise of America.
—Lz Granderson, The Denver Post, 23 July 2024
Conservatives’ baseline intuition has been that Biden is an aging and diminished man, incapable of discharging the duties of his office, whereas progressives have seen him as an elder statesman—slower, perhaps, but basically capable, and at times exceptional.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 18 July 2024
On film, he’s become a go-to elder statesman in the likes of Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning (2023), BlackBerry (2023), Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon films, and Guy Ritchie’s globetrotting action films Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023) and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024).
—EW.com, 18 July 2024
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Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
And Democrats are no longer in need of an elder statesman to remind voters of the promise of America.
—Lz Granderson, The Denver Post, 23 July 2024
Conservatives’ baseline intuition has been that Biden is an aging and diminished man, incapable of discharging the duties of his office, whereas progressives have seen him as an elder statesman—slower, perhaps, but basically capable, and at times exceptional.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 18 July 2024
On film, he’s become a go-to elder statesman in the likes of Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning (2023), BlackBerry (2023), Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon films, and Guy Ritchie’s globetrotting action films Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023) and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024).
—EW.com, 18 July 2024
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