disciplinarian

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Recent Examples of disciplinarian After three years with John Fox, Pace didn’t need to fully reset the culture inside Halas Hall and bring in an experienced disciplinarian because Fox had helped clean up the mess left behind by the Phil Emery/Marc Trestman administration. Adam Jahns, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025 There are no old-school disciplinarians in the NFL any longer, but Campbell’s success is based on toughness, winning the one-on-one battles and gambling that his team will be successful on fourth-down plays. Steve Silverman, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024 Then again, look across the NFL landscape and find an old-school disciplinarian prowling a sideline. Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2024 Both were industrious strivers at work and strict disciplinarians at home. Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disciplinarian
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Noun
  • Nicolás Maduro and his enforcers are running a criminal narco-terrorist dictatorship that jails political opponents, tortures dissidents, and crushes any hope of free expression.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2025
  • Those other states could join forces to reaffirm the prohibition on territorial conquest without relying on the United States as its chief enforcer.
    Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • On June 27, savvy Mercury will meet with taskmaster Saturn in a harmonious trine, inspiring both creativity and structure.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 27 June 2025
  • Chalfant illustrates this in the film with exquisite subtlety, assuming by turns the disposition of a coy flirt and a take-charge kitchen taskmaster.
    Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Libya’s dictator Moammar Gadhafi disarmed in 2003, at Western urging, especially from the United States, and subsequently ended up dead in a ditch.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
  • Former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (left) and his great-grandson, Lazio player Romano Mussolini (right).
    Isabel van Brugen, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025

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