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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He is its founder, leader and patriarch .
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He replaced Vazgen I, who died in August 1994 after nearly four decades as supreme patriarch .
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In 1905 he was made the first patriarch templar.
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It was called not by a pope, nor even a patriarch , but by the Empress Irene.
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Perversely, Tess adores this faintly sinister patriarch , and hopes to wheedle her way into his affections.
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The 1994 deal with Prince Waleed came a year after the death of family patriarch Mel Swig.
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Wherever the Lutheran patriarch went, he ran into the problem of disorders.