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
  • This despite its violent, heroic left-leaning revolutionaries and a cabal of right-wing racists with unapologetically murderous intentions.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 2 June 2026
  • This year’s sequel climaxes with Grace hijacking her second wedding to a Satanic heir by killing him and banishing his oligarchical cabal to hell.
    Judy Berman, Time, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • The headstone, a memorial to texans who served the confederacy, was erected in 1964, which is to say the state missed the hundred-year anniversary of the battle itself but did remember to put it up in the year that Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.
    Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • And the citizenship question, the birthright-citizenship question, is part of that effort to federalize power such that a confederacy, a secession or anything like it, could never happen again.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • Steven Spielberg’s alien conspiracy adventure has earned $82 million internationally and $160 million after two weekends on the big screen.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 21 June 2026
  • This isn't a conspiracy, but how large language models operate.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 June 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
  • Returning to the director’s chair 11 years after drug-cartel drama 600 Miles, Gabriel Ripstein keeps things zipping along in an entertaining satire which, once again, highlights the rottenness at international football’s core.
    Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 26 June 2026
  • Cepeda has participated in and continued throughout the campaign to promote negotiations with guerrillas and cartels.
    CBS News, CBS News, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • Witherspoon initially brought Elle Woods to life in 2001's Legally Blonde, which sees the sorority president attempt to win her aspiring politician ex back by following him to Harvard Law School.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 21 June 2026
  • Members of five historically Black fraternities and sororities will be able to request Michigan license plates featuring their organization's logo.
    Paula Wethington, CBS News, 19 June 2026

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“Camarilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camarilla. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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