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Recent Examples of overlord
Toxie must rise from outcast to savior, taking on ruthless corporate overlords and corrupt forces who threaten his son, his friends, and his community.
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 June 2025
Here the overlords do not wield violence themselves but quietly condone it for the sake of preserving the order on which their privilege rests.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
The question was whether these self-assembly processes could work with no human overlords around.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 27 July 2025
The data center did indeed get built, and its corporate overlord is now one of Joe’s patrons.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 18 July 2025
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 June 2025
Here the overlords do not wield violence themselves but quietly condone it for the sake of preserving the order on which their privilege rests.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
The question was whether these self-assembly processes could work with no human overlords around.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 27 July 2025
The data center did indeed get built, and its corporate overlord is now one of Joe’s patrons.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 18 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overlord
Noun
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So, this is all an opportunity for Donald Trump to play dictator in Washington, D.C.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Aug. 2025
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Romanian dictator [Nicolae] Ceaușescu led a lot of influential and rich foreign people to come to this place close to Bucharest secretly, and one of them was Chaplin.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Aug. 2025
Noun
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President Trump is, once again, testing the limits of his power, hoping to intimidate other cities into submission to his every vengeful whim by making the once unimaginable—an American tyrant ordering a military occupation of our own capital—a terrifying reality.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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Jack Nicholson’s McMurphy, a swaggering trickster figure, clashes with the institution’s quiet tyrant, Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), in a battle not just of wills, but of worldviews: chaos versus order, freedom versus conformity.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
29 July 2025
Noun
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By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
10 July 2025
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The American Declaration of Independence and Constitution frightened monarchies and despots around the world without a single bullet or gunboat.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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None will shout the emperor has no clothes to preserve their unwarranted esteem, occasionally soaring to veneration among the unschooled.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Aug. 2025
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Has the Bama emperor’s post-2023 abdication slightly eased the pressure on everybody else?—
Jason Kirk,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This is the game that Lurker employs in the name of sustaining tension: How far will someone go to remain in the king’s favor?—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Aug. 2025
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The Duke of Sussex's press team and the king's director of communications were photographed having a discreet meeting at a private members' club in July.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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At times this prince of the treetops seems to be almost un real.—
Charles Elliott,
Outdoor Life,
21 Aug. 2025
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There are reports that the prince crashed his Range Rover through electric gates in Windsor Great Park to avoid a detour in 2016.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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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Witkoff went from Qatar to Israel on Saturday and insisted on having a meeting with the prime minister on the afternoon of the Jewish sabbath—a violation of Israeli protocol rudely designed to remind Netanyahu who was the vassal and who was the suzerain.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2025
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Citizens of countries historically exploited by the West face higher financial and bureaucratic hurdles to access facilities and resources concentrated in their former suzerain.—
WIRED,
WIRED,
26 Aug. 2022
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“Overlord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlord. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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