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caudillos

noun

plural of caudillo

as in warlords

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With 775 rooms, the palace also provides office space for the royal bureaucracy and hosts lavish state dinners for visiting presidents and potentates.

— CBS News, CBS News, 26 June 2026
Biden put this sentiment into action by working with Netanyahu despite serious moral and political failures in Gaza, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on NATO expansion, and with Gulf potentates on the region’s security architecture.

— James Jeffrey, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2025

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Two lasers replace hardware Optical frequency combs work much like rulers for light.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
To varying degrees, respondents in these countries—Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudia Arabia, and Turkey—expressed an increasing preference for liberal values, even as their rulers sought to suppress popular demands for democratic change.

— Mansoor Moaddel, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026

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In other instances, loan officers are being pressured by their bosses to convince people to refi.

— Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026
That dustup is typically followed by a defense in Puck’s media newsletter, the reflexively anti-rank-and-file outlet where some media bosses and spokespeople go to air grievances about their unruly staff.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026

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