antediluvian patriarch

[ an-tee-di-loo-vee-uhn pey-tree-ahrk, an-tee-di-loo-vee-uhn ]

/ ˈæn ti dɪˈlu vi ən ˈpeɪ triˌɑrk, ˌæn ti dɪˈlu vi ən /

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The talk radio phenom and Fox News staple has identified himself as a longtime listener of the TRN patriarch.
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Marston declared that women should rule the world but remained a patriarch.
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The patriarch, Josiah, had fought with the 42nd Wisconsin Infantry, marching all the way to Kentucky to battle the Confederates.
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But it was Sean Connery who was the first choice to voice the Disney patriarch with the tragic fate.
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In Moscow, Patriarch Kirill addressed an audience that included Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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I had those words in my thoughts four years ago, when I cut him down from the branch of the Patriarch.
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It is thus that I have seen it stated in the credentials granted to the said Fleuche, first Patriarch of those lands.
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The Patriarch went to him, and, with the help of an interpreter, did for him what pertained to his office as a good Pastor.
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They boast of having descended from Abraham through Ishmael, believing that this patriarch built Mecca and died there.
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But carriages, dog-carts and antediluvian flys began to pour into The Park.
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