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warlord

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as in overlord

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Recent Examples of warlord Abdiqassim Salad Hassan meets with warlord Hussein Mohamed Aidid in Surt, Libya, to discuss reconciliation. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026 In the movie, Furiosa is taken from her idyllic home by bandits and grows up shuttled between psychopath Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) and warlord Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme). — Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026 While former Imperial warlords drift about, trying to amass power, the New Republic sends out the Mandalorian to haul them back to headquarters to snitch on their comrades. — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 23 May 2026 In turn, the twins will provide crucial information on the whereabouts of an elusive Empire warlord named Coin. — ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for warlord

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Amazon doesn’t have to worry about affiliates screaming if the show bleeds into their late local newscasts, nor FCC overlord Brendan Carr having a meltdown over an unbleeped John Mulaney bit.

— Josef Adalian, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
Jason Kilar, the corporate overlord of Warners at the time, exploded the company’s goodwill with talent and agents in every corner of the business by forcing the studio’s titles to stream day and date.

— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 July 2026

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Maduro’s arrest is being compared to the 1989 invasion of Panama and rendition of its caudillo, Manuel Noriega, to Miami to be convicted of drug trafficking and other crimes.

— Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
Hatuey, the Taíno chief who fought the Spanish conquistadores and is known as the Americas’ earliest revolutionary, was a caudillo.

— Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 9 Dec. 2025

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Others have to do with the nature and trustworthiness of the regime in Riyadh, especially the country’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

— Editorial Board, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2026
The engineers who maintain an autocrat’s surveillance apparatus, for example, can shape what the ruler sees.

— Seva Gunitsky, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026

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The main drama involves a rural teen-age tee girl who recognizes the resort’s president as the potentate who evicted her family from their land.

— Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2026
With 775 rooms, the palace also provides office space for the royal bureaucracy and hosts lavish state dinners for visiting presidents and potentates.

— CBS News, CBS News, 26 June 2026

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