camarilla

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Recent Examples of camarilla Russia does not have institutions so much as a camarilla of oligarchs around the leader. Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
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Noun
  • Giant subterranean sandworms measuring 1,500 feet long; a narcotic that fuels interstellar travel and bends a user’s perception of space-time; a mystical cabal of eugenicist witches—the list goes on.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Camus’s conspiracy that a cabal of powerful elites is plotting a great replacement to ensure the exploitation and domination of low- and middle-income White people is nothing short of a grand distraction.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • However, a pro-Union group headed toward Arizona to stop this forward movement of the confederacy.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The Wainfleet area falls within the traditional homeland of the Six Nations of the Grand River, a confederacy comprising the Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Tuscarora peoples — the Haudenosaunee.
    Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Both suspects were charged with larceny over $1,200 and conspiracy.
    Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
  • In countless statements and campaign appearances, the president and his allies turned a crime and a tragedy into a conspiracy.
    Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The investigations lead Nikki to secret deals between the U.S. Navy and the camorra, a syndicate of organized crime families in Naples.
    Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2024
  • In the struggling city of Naples, stereotyped by other Italians as superstitious and controlled by the camorra, Maradona was received like a homecoming god.
    Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2021
Noun
  • One of the largest mass graves in Mexico was reported in 2017 when more than 250 skulls were found in what appeared to be a drug cartel mass burial ground on the outskirts of the city of Veracruz.
    CBS News, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • But in the midst of conspiring, Yusuf doesn't realize that the Italians killed Ivan and Andrei, as well as the cartel.
    Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Bundy was convicted of murdering two sorority sisters from Florida State University.
    Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026
  • His murders — which occurred in sorority houses, parks and elsewhere — set the nation on edge.
    Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026

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“Camarilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camarilla. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.

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