How to Use coup in a Sentence

coup

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  • It was a major coup when they got the Vice President to appear on their show for an interview.
  • If Deion Sanders was the splash, Sean Lewis was the coup.
    — Sean Keeler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Hunter, of course, does not want to give the GOP this coup.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Who is the prince at the center of the far-right coup plot in Germany?
    — Andy Eckardt, NBC News, 27 May 2023
  • But the coup threatened to bring the economy to a halt.
    — Yves Laurent Goma and Sam Mednick The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The Sahel, the arid strip south of the Sahara, has seen a succession of coups.
    — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • And now, like with any worthwhile coup, all the king’s men are talking.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The coup leaders are now trying to starve Mr. Bazoum to death while holding him hostage.
    — Mamadou Kiari Liman-Tinguiri, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2023
  • But in 2021, Burhan and Dagalo joined forces to seize power in a coup.
    — Samy Magdy, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Haiti still does not know who inside the country may have helped finance the coup.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Days before the coup, the body of Johnson was buried in a small mountaineer’s cemetery near the trailheads to Aconcagua.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Yet elsewhere in eastern Ukraine, including in cities such as Kharkiv and Dnipro, the coups failed.
    — Bob Seely, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Still, snapping up this palatial estate in the heart of town would be the ultimate coup.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Already, the country has seen a spike in attacks by extremists since the coup.
    — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Or senators, frankly, for their role in planning a coup.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The far right and the people who are for this coup are saying that the courts have been too interventionist.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Over a wide swath of sub-Saharan Africa, coups and power grabs roiled the region.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Such is the case during a dramatic sequence of a coup almost gone wrong.
    — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Then in 2021, the military staged a coup after an election, and protesters soon filled the streets.
    — Weiyi Cai, New York Times, 31 July 2023
  • In the weeks after the coup, Prigozhin dropped largely out of sight but appeared to have returned to work, baffling observers.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Just the past few years have seen a civil war in Ethiopia; hunger, flooding and ethnic fighting in South Sudan; and a coup in Chad.
    — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • But crowds instead took to the streets of the capital and sang the national anthem to celebrate the coup attempt.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • That changes, of course, when updates touch the halls of power, as with the recent coup plot against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • With the support of the U.S. military, a group of these businessmen enacted a coup.
    — Kate C. Lemay, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
  • The new setup, a major coup for the show and for parent company Paramount, is set to begin Feb. 12.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Xi also stayed out of public sight for a few weeks in 2022 after a trip to central Asia, sparking false rumors of a coup.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The Cincinnati coup wasn't a seismic break between a reasonable past and an extreme present.
    — TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Some military leaders who appear to be involved in the coup have worked closely with the United States for years.
    — Sam Mednick, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2023
  • Both teams gave Pickett problems, but only one inspired a home-crowd coup.
    — Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Matar had written about similar upheavals becoming a feature of daily life in Libya, not long after Qaddafi first seized power in a bloodless coup in 1969.
    — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024

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