grand old man

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Recent Examples of grand old man The grand old man of guidebooks may be gone, but many of us will be following his lead for a good long time. — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024 By his side, Caracas finds a grand old man, a novelist who wanders with him into the depths of the Neapolitan underworld. — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 13 Feb. 2023 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, the grand old man of Dutch physics, who had anticipated much of the development of special relativity two decades earlier and whom Einstein himself held in the highest regard. — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2022 The good news is that Pacifiction, the latest feature from Catalan auteur Albert Serra, who’s only in his 40s but directs like a grand old man of the 1960s avant-garde, is quite watchable, even sort of plot-driven — for a Serra film. — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
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first lady
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  • Martha Washington — America’s first first lady, although such a title had not yet been coined — was reluctant to move to the new presidential household in New York and struggled with her new role as a hostess of presidential drawing rooms.
    — Jenny Jarvie Follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • The new plane is painted in shiny red, white and blue, a departure from the old plane's two-toned blue livery designed by former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
    — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 1 July 2026
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