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Noun
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The Middle East is a region of tyrants, from Iran to Saudi Arabia.—
John Feffer,
Newsweek,
10 Dec. 2024 -
The greatest of all tyrants thunders onto screen in this thrilling story of fossil discovery by three young boys.—
Luann Gibbs,
The Enquirer,
8 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The Arab Spring movement in the 2010s didn't prevent the reemergence of dictators in the Middle East and North Africa.—
Michael Kugelman,
NPR,
21 Dec. 2024
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Shih, the expert on Chinese elite politics, said many dictators, from former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to Mao, have eventually turned against their own proteges.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN,
15 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The cohort will be honored at a virtual ceremony on Thursday, with the princes issuing separate congratulatory messages.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
4 Dec. 2024
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If this is how princes of the church behave, perhaps the rest of us aren’t so bad after all.—
Graham Hillard,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
29 Nov. 2024
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By the late third century, most emperors and many of their top officials rose from the rural peasantry through the ranks of the army.—
Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
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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
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“Overlords.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlords. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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