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Recent Examples of camarilla
Russia does not have institutions so much as a camarilla of oligarchs around the leader.
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Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for camarilla
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As any student of the Kings will know, the point is not to conjure up some Pizzagate-style conspiracy about a cabal of liberal Hollywood predators.—
Matt Brennan,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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Reacher will go up against a cabal of criminals including Paulie (Olivier Richters) pictured in the top image of this post.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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Men were the representatives of their clans and nations in the Haudenosaunee council, which made decisions for the confederacy as a whole.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Nov. 2024
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Adams wanted to align the young Republic with Great Britain, while Jefferson favored a confederacy with France.—
Emily Hallas,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
18 Aug. 2024
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The defendants were charged with 45 counts relating to the scheme, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S., wire fraud, and aiding and assisting in preparing false tax returns.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes,
25 Jan. 2025
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The defendants include Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers who was sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy and other charges related to the riot, and Kelly Meggs, one of Rhodes' top deputies who was sentenced to 12 years.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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The investigations lead Nikki to secret deals between the U.S. Navy and the camorra, a syndicate of organized crime families in Naples.—
Oline H. Cogdill,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Sep. 2024
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In the struggling city of Naples, stereotyped by other Italians as superstitious and controlled by the camorra, Maradona was received like a homecoming god.—
Jo Livingstone,
The New Republic,
8 Dec. 2021
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Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez, follows a cartel leader, played by Gascon, who is in search of gender affirming surgery and seeks help from a Mexico city lawyer Rita, played by Zoe Saldaña.—
Kalia Richardson,
Rolling Stone,
23 Jan. 2025
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Emilia Pérez, the musical about a Mexican cartel leader who fakes his death and undergoes a gender transition but cannot avoid the people in her former life, leads all nominees with 13 including Best Picture, the most by a non-English-language film in Oscar history.—
Patrick Hipes,
Deadline,
23 Jan. 2025
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This is a work about sisterhood—the sisterhood that saved me and continues to save me.—
PhotoVogue,
Vogue,
18 Dec. 2024
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Originally written as a play, skin & bones, with its poetic and evocative prose, is a fervent exploration of Blackness, fatness, sisterhood and motherhood, faith and family.—
Shyla Watson,
People.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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After his second prison escape, following his arrest for the murder of Campbell, Bundy murdered two Chi Omega sorority girls, Margaret Elizabeth Bowman and Lisa Janet Levy.—
Jessica Sager,
People.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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Scream Queens, which debuted in 2015, followed a group of sorority girls who realize they're being targeted by a serial killer.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Camarilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camarilla. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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