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monocrat

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Typically reserved for autocrats and crime bosses, sanctions can be devastating.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
Trump will also meet with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, a former insurgent who led the offensive that unseated autocrat Bashar Assad in December 2024.

— Seung Min Kim, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2026

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In the 2022 election, Sara was the running mate of presidential candidate Marcos Jr, son of the dictator who ruled for 20 years before being deposed in 1986.

— Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 9 July 2026
Trump has praised Communist dictators in terms unlike those used by any American president outside the context of a wartime alliance.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

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Because, after all, as in all of Haber’s novels, the point is not really what is happening in the world but what is happening in the mind—in this case the mind of the pettiest of tyrants.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
Joseph Stalin—the Soviet Union’s supreme ruler from 1929 to 1953 and a murderous tyrant legendary for drinking friends and enemies under the table—was a closet oenophile, the e-mail explained.

— Frankie Mills, Air Mail, 27 June 2026

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Last year, also near Luxor, a large tomb belonging to a pharaoh was reopened to visitors after more than 20 years of renovation.

— CBS News, CBS News, 12 July 2026
In Egypt, certain pharaohs seemed, for reasons still debated, to tilt their own representations from the ideal to the natural.

— Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

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The practice likely had its roots in mid-20th century productions and crystallized over the decades, though American accents have often been used in film history to differentiate the oppressed from the oppressor.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026
Your structure sorts the whole world into two boxes, oppressor and oppressed.

— Joyce Kamanitz, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2026

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The image became so pervasive that Deschamps, the French coach, felt compelled to declare that Mbappé is actually a lovely teammate, not a despot.

— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 10 July 2026
In that instance, the notorious Cold War-era Romanian despot was quickly executed (with his wife) by military top brass while his former elites went on to run things under a nominally democratic system.

— Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

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