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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bossy matriarch Pauline Faaahhhhler finds out she's the real grandma of Sonia's baby and sticks her nose right in.
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I learned my sense of quality and performance from my grandmother, the matriarch of the family.
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She had been the rock of our whole family, the matriarch , a marvellous, marvellous woman.
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This painting speaks with burning honesty of man's love, and of his fear, of the overpowering matriarch .
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We then watched it buttonhole every munching matriarch in the flock, crying, ` Did you see?
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Yet it seems unlikely that a return to the matriarch ate is either possible or the way ahead.