Examples of overlord in a Sentence

He is the overlord of the underground gambling industry.

Recent Examples on the Web How does being a politician compare to being an artist and sweatshop overlord? — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022 The difference this time, however, is that the team is set on doing things their own way without a network or streaming service overlord to please. — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2022 Tech, once the overlord of the stock market, has had a rough 2022. — Larry Light, Forbes, 31 July 2022 The imperial phase saw British history turn inside-out: an island bastion became a global overlord. — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 27 May 2022 And Native arguments and attitudes can’t be reduced to a photocopy of an overlord’s ideology. — Philip Deloria, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022 Thanks to science fiction, AI is often perceived as a threat to humans, a destroyer of jobs and an unsympathetic overlord toiling away in the cloud. — James Duez, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022 Eleven titles into Phase Four, there are several potential Big Bads — Kang, Valentina, Arishem, Kingpin, even the Dark Dimension’s overlord Dormammu — lurking in the periphery. — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 15 May 2022 The odds are that AI is probably going to be more piecemeal and not one gigantic AI overlord (which is the usual portrayal). — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2022 See More

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