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Recent Examples of warlord
The country has become a magnet for warlords, arms dealers, human traffickers, poachers, drug syndicates and generals wanted by international courts.
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Natasha Frost, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
My wife, who is not an international money launderer or mercenary warlord, was turned down for a savings account with a UK bank last year because her driving license had expired.
—David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
The Liberian former warlord and senator whose brutal tactics shocked the world.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
Players can use their warlords as their in-game profile pictures.
—Ash Parrish, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
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Natasha Frost, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
My wife, who is not an international money launderer or mercenary warlord, was turned down for a savings account with a UK bank last year because her driving license had expired.
—David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
The Liberian former warlord and senator whose brutal tactics shocked the world.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
Players can use their warlords as their in-game profile pictures.
—Ash Parrish, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warlord
Noun
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Marvin’s snake of a drug lord brother, Knuckles (Daniel Wu), has a score to settle: His outfit’s legal eagle, Rose (Ariana DeBose), has stolen from him, though the money belongs to Russian overlords who make an 11th-hour appearance.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2025
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Zeus The hot-headed, thunderbolt-wielding, amorous overlord of Olympus.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
20 Jan. 2025
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Deriving from the word caudillo, or strongman, caudillismo is a quintessential Latin American political phenomenon.—
Omar G. Encarnación,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Jan. 2025
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That includes Democrats calling Trump a caudillo — a stereotypical Latin American strongman — or Republicans accusing Biden for being socialist in the style of left-wing Latin American leaders.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes and,
Miami Herald,
21 June 2024
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The month begins on a dreamy note as your celestial ruler, Venus, joins Neptune in a whimsical conjunction.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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His interest in sports analytics comes from his math teacher father, who handed out rulers to Trick-or-Treaters each year.—
Jesse Newell,
Kansas City Star,
7 Feb. 2025
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Baseball ops boss David Stearns constructed a team of players that appear to have the character the Mets are looking for, something Lindor views as a potential strength of the 2025 squad.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2025
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On top of that, Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy and co. are no longer bound by Disney’s pre-2019 mandate of releasing a new Star Wars movie every year.—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Feb. 2025
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The cover of the first issue of The New Yorker, dated Feb. 21, 1925, carried no portraits of potentates or tycoons, no headlines, no come-ons.—
Christopher B. Daly,
The Conversation,
11 Feb. 2025
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Or were all those billionaire potentates in the Capitol Rotunda — seated in front of Trump’s Cabinet picks — asserting their social, economic and cultural hegemony?—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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“Warlord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warlord. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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