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Recent Examples of overlord
But their ambitions were bigger than what their corporate overlords could provide.
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Devon Ivie, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
Growing up watching those movies and reading comics and science fiction, the idea of robot overlords enslaving humanity was always close at hand.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
Léa Seydoux, The Beast In Bertrand Bonello’s softly devastating sci-fi romance, Léa Seydoux plays a futuristic lab employee in a world where AI overlords urge humans to purge their DNA of all imperfections by revisiting their past lives and eliminating strong emotions.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
After Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski went on their show and welcomed our new insect overlords?
—Keith Olbermann, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
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Devon Ivie, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
Growing up watching those movies and reading comics and science fiction, the idea of robot overlords enslaving humanity was always close at hand.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
Léa Seydoux, The Beast In Bertrand Bonello’s softly devastating sci-fi romance, Léa Seydoux plays a futuristic lab employee in a world where AI overlords urge humans to purge their DNA of all imperfections by revisiting their past lives and eliminating strong emotions.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
After Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski went on their show and welcomed our new insect overlords?
—Keith Olbermann, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overlord
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Because China is Russia’s most important partner, any gains that Putin can salvage from his disastrous war forwards the two dictators’ global agenda.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
19 Feb. 2025
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Presidents of the United States, and leaders of other democracies, have to deal with dictators.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
19 Feb. 2025
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Having been tapped by President Trump, very soon Rep. Elise Stefanik will step away from her upstate congressional district and make a fine ambassador to the United Nations, taking on the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, North Koreans and various other dictators and tyrants on the East Side.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2025
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Once upon a time, his wealthy father, the eponymous Pedro Páramo (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) ruled these parts like a tyrant.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Dec. 2024
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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 rationale for the legislation is that Congress doesn’t want despots in North Korea or Russia or Iran or China to have reams of private and personal information on half of the country.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
12 Jan. 2025
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Republicans called Barack Obama an emperor for using his executive power to, among other things, simply defer federal immigration enforcement against young Dreamers that were broadly popular.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2025
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The site was part of a pleasure garden complex thought to be owned by the emperor, which is supported by the writings of Philo of Alexandria.—
Jake Parks,
Discover Magazine,
6 Feb. 2025
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The exhibition’s most riveting work, sure to have been a popular favorite, is the roughly life-size bronze head of Seuthes III, a Thracian king almost contemporary with, if perhaps slightly younger than, Macedonian Alexander the Great.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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The constellation Cepheus is not nearly as bright as Cassiopeia and looks nothing like a king.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
9 Feb. 2025
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At one point, the prince was seen giving his then-girlfriend a kiss on the cheek!—
Stephanie Petit,
People.com,
8 Feb. 2025
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And unlike the Danish prince, her righteousness is undermined by the fact that Clytemnestra murdered her husband on much the same impulse as hers, punishment for his brutal slaying of another daughter.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Feb. 2025
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By contrast, given Russia's dominant role in the CU, joining that group would transform Yanukovych into a satrap of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whom Yanukovych regards as the avatar of Russian arrogance.—
Rajan Menon,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Oct. 2011
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The quick collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satraps unsettled both nations.—
Christian Schneider,
National Review,
21 Dec. 2023
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Witkoff went from Qatar to Israel on Saturday and insisted on having a meeting with the prime minister on the afternoon of the Jewish sabbath—a violation of Israeli protocol rudely designed to remind Netanyahu who was the vassal and who was the suzerain.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2025
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Citizens of countries historically exploited by the West face higher financial and bureaucratic hurdles to access facilities and resources concentrated in their former suzerain.—
WIRED,
WIRED,
26 Aug. 2022
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“Overlord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlord. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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