strongman
noun
strong·man
ˈstrȯŋ-ˌman 
: one who leads or controls by force of will and character or by military methods
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Examples of strongman in a Sentence
a Latin-American strongman who basically treated his nation's coffers as his personal bank account
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Ohtani just did something nobody in baseball history has matched, or ever will match, combining the power of a strongman with the skill of a sprinter, creating a complete hitter of the sort that the game never has employed.
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Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
The trend toward rewarding strongmen continued with the election of Prabowo Subianto to the Indonesian presidency.
—Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2024
These strongmen can show a thing or two Summers: That's incredible.
—Tyler Bartlam, NPR, 3 Sep. 2024
In 2016, the MAGA crowd delighted in memes circulated on red-pill forums that depicted Trump as a cartoonish strongman who was exactly as hateful and despotic as the left feared.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 23 July 2024
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Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
The trend toward rewarding strongmen continued with the election of Prabowo Subianto to the Indonesian presidency.
—Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2024
These strongmen can show a thing or two Summers: That's incredible.
—Tyler Bartlam, NPR, 3 Sep. 2024
In 2016, the MAGA crowd delighted in memes circulated on red-pill forums that depicted Trump as a cartoonish strongman who was exactly as hateful and despotic as the left feared.
—Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 23 July 2024
See all Example Sentences for strongman
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“Strongman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strongman. Accessed 29 Sep. 2024.
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