satrap

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Recent Examples of satrap The ranks of the leadership are staffed, in large measure, with satraps and mediocrities. David Remnick, New Yorker, 21 June 2025 By contrast, given Russia's dominant role in the CU, joining that group would transform Yanukovych into a satrap of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whom Yanukovych regards as the avatar of Russian arrogance. Rajan Menon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2011 The quick collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satraps unsettled both nations. Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023 What cues will America’s adversaries take if an Iranian satrap is allowed to establish an inviolable sphere of influence off Yemen’s coasts? The Editors, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023 The Belarusian leader, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, is viewed largely as the Kremlin’s docile satrap. Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 25 June 2023 The Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, is viewed largely as the Kremlin’s docile satrap. Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023 Backed by an expansive and brutal security system, Mr. Lukashenko shows no sign of losing his grip at home, if at the cost of becoming Mr. Putin’s enfeebled satrap. New York Times, 19 Feb. 2022 The 67-year-old sideline satrap enters the year with a career 292-134 record. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for satrap
Noun
  • Octavius took the stage name Augustus, consolidated power, and became the first Roman emperor.
    Bill Speros, Boston Herald, 12 June 2025
  • Now, as artificial intelligence begins automating many of the tasks that filled these positions, the emperor's new clothes are becoming visible to all.
    Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Fought from 1701 to 1714, the conflict centered on who would inherit the Spanish throne after the Habsburg king Charles II died without an heir.
    Aurora Martínez, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2025
  • The Oklahoma City Thunder are the new kings of the NBA.
    Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The president of Shabab Al Ahli, the dominant team at the moment, having won two of the past three league titles, is Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, the crown prince of Dubai.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • The Prince of Wales celebrates his 43rd birthday on June 21, 2025 9 Comments The crown prince is 43!
    Brendan Le, People.com, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Others see the three circles and two wavy lines as a symbol of the three continents and two seas ruled by the sultans—Europe, Asia and Africa, and the Mediterranean and the Black Seas.
    Dorothy Armstrong June 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
  • There remains a deep local respect for the sultan, however, even if it is not always captured in elite perspectives.
    Jon Emont, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2015
Noun
  • His successor, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhunzada, whose son became a suicide bomber, is an austere cleric who has adopted the reclusive mystique of the original amir.
    New York Times, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The amir of Kabul bought bicycles for his entire harem.
    National Geographic, National Geographic, 17 June 2020
Noun
  • Gwyneth Paltrow, the empress of Goop, was recently spotted wearing one.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 19 June 2025
  • The coins, featuring the faces of 11 Roman emperors and empresses, were likely owned by a wealthy individual.
    Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Trump spoke with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, bringing to the table Israel's agreement to a ceasefire, the diplomat said.
    Chelsea Chan, NBC news, 24 June 2025
  • Al Nusra’s emir for the area, Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Tunisi, forced the Druze to issue a statement from representatives of the various villages agreeing to renounce their religion.
    Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2015

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“Satrap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satrap. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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