as in dictator
a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way
like many another third-world caesar, he cared little for the destitute class into which he himself had been born
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He was later toppled by a military coup in 1966, which was allegedly backed by the CIA, after he was cast as a dictator.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
4 Aug. 2025 -
The retiring wrestler plays an ex-Special Forces operative who takes a gig escorting a journalist into the jungles of South America to interview a dictator.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
1 Aug. 2025
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President Trump is, once again, testing the limits of his power, hoping to intimidate other cities into submission to his every vengeful whim by making the once unimaginable—an American tyrant ordering a military occupation of our own capital—a terrifying reality.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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Jack Nicholson’s McMurphy, a swaggering trickster figure, clashes with the institution’s quiet tyrant, Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), in a battle not just of wills, but of worldviews: chaos versus order, freedom versus conformity.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
29 July 2025
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The Egyptian monarch is often cited as the most likely candidate for the pharaoh mentioned in Exodus, though an explicit name was never given in the Old Testament.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
21 May 2025
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Could an Egyptian pharaoh or a Chinese emperor have used a stiff drink or two to build their kingdoms?—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
16 July 2025
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“Caesar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caesar. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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