noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
elder statesman
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
elder
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The county's elder statesmen were collectively in good nick, both off the court and when hitting it on it.
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The installation of the elder statesman Itó Hirobumi as resident 1905-9 marked the significance of the post.
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Now an elder statesman , ambition frustrated but perforce sated, he is positioned to tell a riveting story.
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These opportunities included being a member of a sixteenth-century religious order, an elder statesman and a doctor.
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He was knighted in 1949, then slipped easily into the role of cricketing elder statesman .
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Durán, projecting the image of elder statesman , was expected to attract votes from the left in the run-off election.
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In his latter years he took little day-to-day interest in racing, but was seen as an elder statesman of the turf.
great
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Some are great warriors and statesmen .
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Abroad they must be seen as great statesmen anxious to build peacemaking bridges between East and West.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If it had, he would not have been treated as a statesman but as an outcast.
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In Washington, statesmen and bureaucrats come and go.
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Some are great warriors and statesmen.
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The county's elder statesmen were collectively in good nick, both off the court and when hitting it on it.
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The historical record is thin for most of the other black statesman as well.
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The would-be statesman is now an aspirant escapologist.
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Unlike his father, Richard was no statesman .
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Will he be remembered as a statesman in his final days, or just another bought-and-paid-for hunk of political meat?