doyens
- plural of doyen.
Example Sentences
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Today, a number of doyens in the recondite field of AI admit they don’t know where all this is headed.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
Putnam’s had kept Bates on after purchasing Grosset and Dunlap, and Bates had come to adore her well-earned senior status as one of the industry’s doyens.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2023
Several doyens of the rare books realm had become alarmed after looking into Mr. Lhéritier’s background.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2020
The prospect has a certain synergy to it, because both actors have made a home for themselves as doyens of the arthouse film, even if their careers started off in very different places.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2019
One of the doyens of scientific testing of the shroud, Raymond Rogers of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, argued in 2002 that a simple chemical transformation could do the job.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2015
