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Recent Examples of warlord
The country has become a magnet for warlords, arms dealers, human traffickers, poachers, drug syndicates and generals wanted by international courts.
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Natasha Frost, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
My wife, who is not an international money launderer or mercenary warlord, was turned down for a savings account with a UK bank last year because her driving license had expired.
—David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
The Liberian former warlord and senator whose brutal tactics shocked the world.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
Players can use their warlords as their in-game profile pictures.
—Ash Parrish, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
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Natasha Frost, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
My wife, who is not an international money launderer or mercenary warlord, was turned down for a savings account with a UK bank last year because her driving license had expired.
—David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
The Liberian former warlord and senator whose brutal tactics shocked the world.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
Players can use their warlords as their in-game profile pictures.
—Ash Parrish, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warlord
Noun
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Marvin’s snake of a drug lord brother, Knuckles (Daniel Wu), has a score to settle: His outfit’s legal eagle, Rose (Ariana DeBose), has stolen from him, though the money belongs to Russian overlords who make an 11th-hour appearance.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2025
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Zeus The hot-headed, thunderbolt-wielding, amorous overlord of Olympus.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
20 Jan. 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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The month begins on a dreamy note as your celestial ruler, Venus, joins Neptune in a whimsical conjunction.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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His interest in sports analytics comes from his math teacher father, who handed out rulers to Trick-or-Treaters each year.—
Jesse Newell,
Kansas City Star,
7 Feb. 2025
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My dad asked, through an interpreter, for a raise to $90, and that didn’t go over too well with his boss.—
Araceli Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
4 Feb. 2025
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One of the key details revealed in the emails, according to the reports, was from a Saints team spokesman who briefed his boss on a 2018 call with the city’s top prosecutor hours before the church released a list of clergymen accused of abuse.—
Mark Puleo,
The Athletic,
4 Feb. 2025
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Or were all those billionaire potentates in the Capitol Rotunda — seated in front of Trump’s Cabinet picks — asserting their social, economic and cultural hegemony?—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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A number of sports potentates will be making the Idaho scene, at a moment when tens of billions of dollars are changing hands in pursuit of ever-valuable rights.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
10 July 2024
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“Warlord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warlord. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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