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Recent Examples of camarilla
Russia does not have institutions so much as a camarilla of oligarchs around the leader.
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Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for camarilla
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This has been allowed to occur because a small cabal of technocrats control the price of money.Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Hawai`i’s statehood itself results from a treacherous cabal of business interests–Dole among them–conspiring together on a scheme to wrest control of the land away from Native Hawaiians and give it the U.S.Chadd Scott, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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Men were the representatives of their clans and nations in the Haudenosaunee council, which made decisions for the confederacy as a whole.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 21 Nov. 2024
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Adams wanted to align the young Republic with Great Britain, while Jefferson favored a confederacy with France.Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Aug. 2024
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This time around, there is no multi-party conspiracy, no confusing mechanisms of payments, and no allegations of welching boosters.Joe Sabin, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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The nearly three-hour podcast was a perfect storm of virality: comedy, conspiracy, and searing insult, leaving the internet in tatters.Rob Marriott, VIBE.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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Read Part 2: How an informant nearly brokered a cartel alliance and Part 3: A mobster helped the feds arrest drug dealers.Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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Perhaps Trump invades Mexico militarily, wipes out all the drug cartels and annexes Mexico into the United States.Joanna Allhands, Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2024
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Originally written as a play, skin & bones, with its poetic and evocative prose, is a fervent exploration of Blackness, fatness, sisterhood and motherhood, faith and family.Shyla Watson, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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Phaedra, ever the optimist, reassures her that this group is like family, and even through the mess, sisterhood is still within reach.Shelby Stewart, Essence, 6 Jan. 2025
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Turns out, plants don’t always thrive in cramped sorority house bedrooms.Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2024
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Then try Bob Clark’s classic horror film, in which a mysterious killer starts picking off members of a sorority house one by one during the lead-up to Christmas.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Camarilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/camarilla. Accessed 12 Jan. 2025.
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