disciplinarian

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Recent Examples of disciplinarian Both were industrious strivers at work and strict disciplinarians at home. Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025 The 45-year-old wife, accused of being the primary disciplinarian, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, while the 43-year-old husband received a 10-year sentence. Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for disciplinarian
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disciplinarian
Noun
  • Carter Yakemchuk continues to make his case for NHL minutes, but his most enduring moment on Tuesday was a lowlight, trying to stave off punches from Canadiens enforcer Florian Xhekaj.
    Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Will plays Tyson, who drove cabs before joining Dwight's crew as an enforcer.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Cancer is a tough taskmaster, and doctors didn’t detect it early enough.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • For a man known around the Pentagon as a relentless, humorless taskmaster, McNamara seemed virtually unrecognizable on the party circuit, mingling casually with journalists, fellow government officials, and vivacious Georgetown hostesses.
    William Taubman, Air Mail, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That is why censorship is the authoritarian's dream.
    Robert Birsel Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Trump isn't responsible for such long-term trends as Beijing's determination to rival the United States in global influence, or Putin's evolution to an entrenched authoritarian with expansionist ambitions.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The author understood how power works, and the lengths that people, classes, political parties and dictators would go to keep it.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Declaring war on our nation’s cities and using our troops as political pawns is what dictators do.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Disciplinarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disciplinarian. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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