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Recent Examples of overlord
The black goo helped bring about the end of the Engineers; the xenomorphs, the end of various colonist human groups; and now the Lost Boys are wrenching the world from their adult overlords.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
Refrain from rebelling against the GPS overlord!
—Katherine Lagrave, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
Hathaway, whose character Andy is presumably out from under the thumb of Runway magazine overlord Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), dons a glittery blue, shin-length Rabanne dress from the designer's 2026 cruise collection.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
This dishy look at the inner-workings of Facebook, written by a former employee, is sure to raise eyebrows and blood pressure about our tech overlords.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 31 July 2025
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
Refrain from rebelling against the GPS overlord!
—Katherine Lagrave, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
Hathaway, whose character Andy is presumably out from under the thumb of Runway magazine overlord Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), dons a glittery blue, shin-length Rabanne dress from the designer's 2026 cruise collection.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
This dishy look at the inner-workings of Facebook, written by a former employee, is sure to raise eyebrows and blood pressure about our tech overlords.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overlord
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He had been found guilty of conspiring to raise funds from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to finance his campaign, and became the first post-World War II leader in France to go to jail.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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These deployments are nothing more than partisan spite from an increasingly unhinged aspiring dictator, and the Supreme Court must halt them.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Knowing that the tyrants in the Kremlin approved all these activities does not negate their positive impact on American society.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Although Pancho Villa was considered by many Mexicans a hero of that revolution, my great-grandfather regarded him as a tyrant who forced Indigenous people into battle, treating them as little more than cannon fodder.—
jsonline.com,
jsonline.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Phantom Thread is a masterfully claustrophobic portrayal of a ’50s fashion house, as well as a nuanced depiction of a petty despot ruling over his small kingdom.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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Armed with such sensational journalistic and fictional sources, artists from across the world, one after the other, proclaimed in virtual artistic unison that King Henry had been nothing more than a despot who essentially re-enslaved his people.—
Marlene L. Daut
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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Instead, these rather daring verses were composed by a Hieronymite nun for her beloved vicereine, the wife of the Spanish king’s representative in New Spain.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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That may in itself pose an ongoing risk to the monarchy's reputation if the public feel Andrew is still being protected by the king.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Following the Qianlong Garden, museum officials said Yangxindian (Hall of Mental Cultivation), the residence and administrative office for Qing emperors, is also expected to reopen this year after completing restoration work that started in 2018.—
Fred He,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Last year, at the age of eighty-six, Hopkins appeared as the Roman emperor Vespasian on TV, in Those About to Die, the thrust of his performance being to treat the show’s title with scorn.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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The former prince’s accommodation will be privately funded by the King.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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The palace said the former prince will also have to move out of the Royal Lodge mansion near Windsor Castle.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
31 Oct. 2025
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Not your grandma’s authoritarians Today’s authoritarian rulers realize that civil society has the potential to support democracy and pry loose their grip on power.—
Christopher Justin Einolf,
The Conversation,
26 Sep. 2025
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That is why censorship is the authoritarian's dream.—
Robert Birsel
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Similarly, the scale, scope and depth of the AI revolution will also compel the group practice leaders, health system executives, private equity satraps and all others who now pull the strings on so many physicians to adapt to the democratization of medical knowledge.—
Michael L. Millenson,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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The ranks of the leadership are staffed, in large measure, with satraps and mediocrities.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
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“Overlord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlord. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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