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Recent Examples of warlord
Except for this one man, the evidence of the warlords and Japan going crazy had been horribly apparent.
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Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
The Trump administration’s African diplomatic team has made headway in striking a deal with the nation in which the U.S. would provide security assistance to the DRC government in its fight against warlords in return for U.S. access to critical minerals within the country.
—John Berlau, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Resting after a wild boar hunt, warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to divide his domain among his three sons.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 23 May 2025
Increasingly present in these actions are various groups with coercive power: current and former employees of state security agencies, Putin’s bodyguards, and such figures as Ramzan Kadyrov, the former warlord and close Putin ally who is head of the Chechen Republic and who has a personal army.
—Andrei Yakovlev, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
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Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
The Trump administration’s African diplomatic team has made headway in striking a deal with the nation in which the U.S. would provide security assistance to the DRC government in its fight against warlords in return for U.S. access to critical minerals within the country.
—John Berlau, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Resting after a wild boar hunt, warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to divide his domain among his three sons.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 23 May 2025
Increasingly present in these actions are various groups with coercive power: current and former employees of state security agencies, Putin’s bodyguards, and such figures as Ramzan Kadyrov, the former warlord and close Putin ally who is head of the Chechen Republic and who has a personal army.
—Andrei Yakovlev, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warlord
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The poem presents the Trojans, and the future Romans of Virgil’s own time, as both the underdogs and the oppressors, both the migrants and the colonizers, both the wretched refugees and the imperial overlords.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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Man-su is at his workplace, where the incoming American overlords are cutting back and making 20% of the workforce redundant.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
29 Aug. 2025
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Deriving from the word caudillo, or strongman, caudillismo is a quintessential Latin American political phenomenon.—
Omar G. Encarnación,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Jan. 2025
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That includes Democrats calling Trump a caudillo — a stereotypical Latin American strongman — or Republicans accusing Biden for being socialist in the style of left-wing Latin American leaders.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes and,
Miami Herald,
21 June 2024
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Every ruler, every plan, every prophecy has been tested against the unruly currents of human will and the undertow of chance.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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The song is the act’s second ruler and first sung by Jakob Nowell, son of late frontman Bradley Nowell.—
Kevin Rutherford,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
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Recently, her boss asked the group who would be able to stay late to finish up a few reports.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
14 Sep. 2025
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While Kimmie worked as a dancer at the club, Jules (who serves as both Bellaire’s head of security and the boss at Norman’s secret strip club) forced her to be Roy's prostitute.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Why don’t all the rich potentates, sheiks, oligarchs and MAGA dictators meet and fix it?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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With the pandemic, the year-round population of a once-seasonal resort town swelled with Manhattan refugees, those in the Trump orbit, and tech and finance potentates, many of them serious collectors like Ken Griffin and Steve Ross.—
Ben Widdicombe,
Vulture,
12 May 2025
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“Warlord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warlord. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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