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In a Rose Garden announcement, Clinton regaled the crowd by noting Richardson had just returned from a rebel chieftain's hut in Sudan.
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Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
In fact, the line is found in a speech that Tacitus quotes (or invents), delivered by a barbarian chieftain, Calgacus, on the eve of a battle against Roman forces.
—James Romm, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2023
Karthi essayed the role of chieftain Vallavaraiyan Vandiyadevan.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Sep. 2023
Wagner’s chieftain Yevgeny Prigozhin is possibly somewhere in Belarus now, presumably under some form of lock and key.
—Time, 26 June 2023
For the last few months, as the mercenary chieftain Yevgeny V. Prigozhin escalated his feud with the Russian military, Mr. Putin did not publicly reveal any discomfort with his diatribes.
—Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 24 June 2023
Late Saturday and Sunday, social media images circulated of locals cheering and posing for selfies with the paramilitary chieftain as his forces pulled back from the city — a sight that may have been unnerving to Putin and his allies.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2023
King Charles became chieftain of the games in 2002, following in the footsteps of his late mother.
—Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
Christopher Cawley has been collecting antiques — a pair of red-velvet and gold-silk panels from Venice, a chieftain’s chair from Thailand, 17th-century tapestries — since his grandfather began taking him to flea markets around Philadelphia as a child.
—Curbed, 3 Apr. 2023
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Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
In fact, the line is found in a speech that Tacitus quotes (or invents), delivered by a barbarian chieftain, Calgacus, on the eve of a battle against Roman forces.
—James Romm, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2023
Karthi essayed the role of chieftain Vallavaraiyan Vandiyadevan.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Sep. 2023
Wagner’s chieftain Yevgeny Prigozhin is possibly somewhere in Belarus now, presumably under some form of lock and key.
—Time, 26 June 2023
For the last few months, as the mercenary chieftain Yevgeny V. Prigozhin escalated his feud with the Russian military, Mr. Putin did not publicly reveal any discomfort with his diatribes.
—Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 24 June 2023
Late Saturday and Sunday, social media images circulated of locals cheering and posing for selfies with the paramilitary chieftain as his forces pulled back from the city — a sight that may have been unnerving to Putin and his allies.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2023
King Charles became chieftain of the games in 2002, following in the footsteps of his late mother.
—Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
Christopher Cawley has been collecting antiques — a pair of red-velvet and gold-silk panels from Venice, a chieftain’s chair from Thailand, 17th-century tapestries — since his grandfather began taking him to flea markets around Philadelphia as a child.
—Curbed, 3 Apr. 2023
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“Chieftain.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chieftain. Accessed 10 Dec. 2023.
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