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Noun
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Eruption of warfare The army and RSF had at one point been in a fragile partnership together, jointly staging a coup in 2021 that derailed the transition from the Islamist rule of Omar al-Bashir, a longtime autocrat who was ousted in 2019.—
FOXNews.com,
FOXNews.com,
26 Mar. 2025 -
Instead, the country has a would-be autocrat, with a Mt. Whitney-size grudge against California, seeking to establish himself as King Donald the First.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
The Mercury News,
22 Feb. 2025
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The assailants are domestic extremists whose aim is to further an agenda of tyrants and oligarchs.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Mar. 2025
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It was used, with the blood of brave Ukrainians, to defend their country from a tyrant’s aggression.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 2025
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As soon as the dictator was out, Samer Jalbout was on the move.—
Taylor Luck,
The Christian Science Monitor,
25 Mar. 2025
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But filmmaker Feras Fayyad, who endured torture in Assad’s prisons, never gave up the certainty that one day the dictator would be ousted.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
25 Mar. 2025
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Elsewhere, June’s former overlord and foe, Serena Joy Watford (Yvonne Strahovski), tries to make sense of her role in this new landscape, and perhaps even bring reform to Gilead.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2025
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Kitana, as well as Martyn Ford (House of David, Those About to Die) as Outworld overlord Shao Kahn.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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Aid workers are abandoning the country and violence has become rampant, with warlords terrorizing communities.—
Miami Herald Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Jan. 2025
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Some of the most notorious warlords and criminals who brought such misery to Kunduz — and ultimately did more to support the Taliban than defeat them — faded away without a final battle or trial.—
Azam Ahmed,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2024
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Our foundational document, held and displayed in the National Archives building on the National Mall, insists that all men are created equal and rails against the tyranny of despots and kings.—
Elaine Weiss,
The Atlantic,
6 Mar. 2025
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His pain pours out, like a long cry from Syria’s dungeons, a cry that was silenced during more than half a century of rule by brutal despots, Bashar al-Assad, and his father, Hafez, before him.—
Scott Peterson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
31 Jan. 2025
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The new Administration is dismantling the federal government, allying itself with strongmen, and implementing a new McCarthyism.—
Kyle Chayka,
The New Yorker,
26 Mar. 2025
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European leaders had tried to guide Trump in the days before Zelenskyy arrived, but Trump is wedded to his demented dream of a troika of strongmen — himself, Putin and Xi Jinping — astride the world.—
Maureen Dowd,
The Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2025
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Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orange County Register,
17 Oct. 2020
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Under the unconditional patronage of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov rules his republic as a totalitarian, and has done so since taking power in May 2004, after his father, then President Akhmad Kadyrov, was assassinated.—
Layla Taimienova,
Foreign Affairs,
10 May 2017
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“Autarch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autarch. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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