autarch

noun

Definition of autarchnext
as in autocrat

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  1. autocrat
  2. tyrant
  3. dictator
  4. overlord
  5. warlord
  6. despot
  7. strongman
  8. totalitarian
Noun
  • The country’s autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, is set to be sworn in for a third term as president on Friday.
    Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Production in the world’s second-largest garment manufacturer was repeatedly stalled by the months-long violence, before protesters forced long-time autocrat Sheikh Hasina to flee in August.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune Asia, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of autocrat
Noun
  • This frees up Hope to be a tyrant to the wedding planning committee.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Movements, parties, and tyrants thrive on xenophobia—the word might be specifically Hellenic, but the sentiment is universal.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of tyrant
Noun
  • Biden leaves office in a period of global turbulence, with the Israel-Hamas war ongoing; Syria under rebel leadership after its dictator, Bashar al-Assad, was suddenly ousted; and a civil war raging in Sudan.
    Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Biden spoke Sunday with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about changes resulting from a ceasefire deal in Lebanon and the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the White House said.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of dictator
Noun
  • After Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski went on their show and welcomed our new insect overlords?
    Keith Olbermann, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
  • In the nineteenth century, as the cost of its independence, Haiti had to pay France—its erstwhile colonial overlord—reparations.
    Martín Abregú, Foreign Affairs, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of overlord
Noun
  • That's the same South Africa that once hosted a Sudanese dictator after the ICC issued warrants for his arrest on crimes against humanity and genocide and then, last year, also hosted a Sudanese warlord accused of crimes against humanity.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The country has become a magnet for warlords, arms dealers, human traffickers, poachers, drug syndicates and generals wanted by international courts.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of warlord
Noun
  • Assad's fall is a moment of accountability in a world where despots often escape justice.
    Paul du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • This sequel to Ridley Scott’s 2000 epic substitutes the brother emperors Caracalla and Geta for the original’s Commodus, modeling them not only on him, but on a host of Rome’s other reputedly bloodthirsty despots like Caligula, Nero, and Domitian.
    Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of despot
Noun
  • The fourth-line strongman staggered off the ice in garbage time after eating an Emil Lilleberg cross-check with 2.5 seconds remaining in regulation.
    Fluto Shinzawa, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Trump and Pence shake hands at Carter's funeral service amid frosty relationship Michelle Obama absent from Carter funeral A politics pit stop Trump loves populists and strongmen.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of strongman
Noun
  • Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.
    Letters to the Editor, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2020
  • 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
Definition of totalitarian
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