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autarch

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Definition of autarch

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Noun

Tebas had to dive into his autocrat encyclopedia again this week, when Real Madrid star Kylian Mbappé said the kind of thing that should offend no one, but instead launched a minor international incident.

— Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2026
On the very same day in Serbia, people power ousted an autocrat who had dominated the country’s politics for 14 years.

— Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of autocrat

Noun

The piece, by the Bay Area duo BSisters (Behnaz and Baharak Khaleghi), riffs on the myth of Zahāk — a vain tyrant with snakes around his head that eat human brains to keep him alive.

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
He got obsessed with building an empire, started Solar Productions, and became a tyrant both on set and off.

— Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of tyrant

Noun

Rodriguez cut ads accusing Salazar of being cozy with deceased dictator Fidel Castro.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 4 Nov. 2026
The Tirana Pyramid, built by followers of the brutal dictator Enver Hoxha, who died in 1985, as his memorial, and turned into a public amenity by the Rotterdam firm MVRDV, was also damaged.

— Fred A. Bernstein, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of dictator

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The most direct tribute to Tippett came in the battle against two giant droids guarding an overlord’s chamber.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
Noah, the star football player and the son of town sheriff Kerry Kane (Kelly Macdonald), a woman Hal has been in a relationship with, is actually a violent alien overlord capable of murder and manipulation.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of overlord

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During the interview, Kolvet also asked Mullin about a hypothetical scenario involving a former foreign warlord who entered the United States as a refugee with his daughter.

— Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
The ruthless warlord was one of the most notorious figures of the conflict that left more than 100,000 people dead and over 1 million homeless.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of warlord

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There’s more than a mirror between the oppressor and oppressed.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
These included quotes by Fanon, a philosopher who wrote extensively about the ways in which colonized people adopt the mindsets of their oppressors.

— Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of oppressor

Noun

Whatever the explanation, Boot says a willingness to do the bidding of a murderous despot is despicable and dangerous.

— Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 2026
Upending global trade, plucking a dictator out of Caracas, escalating to full-on war with Iran, shredding alliances, courting despots — the major twists and turns of this administration never end.

— Kate Andrews, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of despot

Noun

The results in Doral — the largest swing in Miami-Dade County — are remarkable in a community of Venezuelan immigrants who fled a socialist strongman.

— Teo Armus, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2026
No one loses millions by criticizing dead Nazis, or most other political strongmen for that matter.

— Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2026

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