Head and Ruling

Head

Head adjective - Highest in rank or authority.

Usage example: as head editor at the TV station for 17 years, he has hired and fired innumerable staff members

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Ruling and head are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ruling" instead an adjective "Head".

Nearby Words: heading, headland, headship, headband, headed

Ruling adjective - Held by or applicable to a majority of the people.

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Head and ruling are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Head" instead the word "Ruling" as an adjective or a verb.

Nearby Words: rule, ruler, ruled

old	old head	old ruling
full	full head	full ruling
similar	similar head	similar ruling
right	right head	right ruling
Other adjectives: original, actual, real, large, black, new, giant, previous.

Played from horror in an issue of Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: In an alternate universe, the ruling council of Cybertron have replaced the usual means of surgical disfigurement with a new one where the victim's head is replaced with a TV, which they "speak" through.

Source: TV Head Robot
Not wanting anything to do with ruling a kingdom himself, he sets up the two princesses as the head of the new country.

Source: Manga / Shina Dark
For example, Kalam and Quick Ben take on a Forkrul Assail head-on and trap it, mostly because the Forkrul Assail have been ruling Kolanse unopposed for so long they've grown overconfident.

Source: Literature / The Crippled God

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