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overlord

noun

Definition of overlord

as in dictator

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Recent Examples of overlord Yes, other Hollywood depictions of the future had predicted similar technology over the years, but guess what year Apple overlord Steve Jobs announced the breakthrough videotelephony product known as FaceTime? — Dan Snierson, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026 Some tech observers think that the Palantir overlord sees the end times coming, but his real motivation is likely much more mundane and self-interested. — David Futrelle, Washington Post, 4 June 2026 After a brief burst of good ratings results, CBS News is once against under a dark cloud of allegations of MAGA appeasement and corporate-overlord overreach. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 27 May 2026 The corporate overlords may have put the break on the movies, but the streamer has been regularly pumping out TV shows in order to keep milking the franchise dry. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for overlord

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Noun

The deposed dictator smiled, greeted court personnel, and shook hands with lawyers after entering the courtroom, according to the Associated Press.

— Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 22 July 2026
The dictator unleashed World War II in which at least 60 million people died.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026

Definition of dictator

Noun

In his fullest public argument yet about his thinking, Thiel and co-author Sam Wolfe write the figure of ultimate evil is best understood not as a monster or a tyrant but as a technocrat.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 July 2026
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

Definition of tyrant

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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

Definition of despot

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The War In times of peace, Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) had hosted parties in their palace for all — even beggars were welcome.

— Tanya Fedak, Variety, 18 July 2026
Jon Bernthal as Menelaus Menelaus is the king whose wife Helen sparked the Trojan War.

— Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026

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Japan’s government separated the two traditions of Shinto and Buddhism in 1868 during the Meiji era, effectively bringing Shinto shrines under state control and placing the emperor at the center of the new order.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
Consider paintings like Caracalla, where the titular emperor treads a trail of rose petals; or In a Rose Garden, where a woman shakes the petals of a rose bush down on her companion; and the extravaganza of The Roses of Heliogabalus.

— Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 17 July 2026

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Tom Holland plays Odysseus’ son — who was just a baby when his father left for the Trojan War —the prince of Ithaca, Telemachus.

— Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
She’s set on turning a frog prince, Naveen, back into a human after he’s cursed by an evil voodoo witch doctor, Facilier.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 17 July 2026

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