autarch

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Noun
  • Starting an expensive professional golf league was a roundabout way to launder the reputation of a violent autocrat.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Trump’s first target was Venezuelan autocrat Maduro, a close ally of Cuba, and many Cuban Americans saw that intervention as a step toward realizing Rubio’s desire to topple the island’s communist government.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.
    CBS News, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The cold indifference of history buried that grandiose tyrant in the oblivion of the desert — a haunting reminder that even the most grandiose of leaders are but fleeting shadows in the long arc of history.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Now, is that the same as a soldier betting on the capture of a vicious dictator?
    Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Now some people, or maybe just One People, might chuckle at that, thinking dictator Kim Jong Un’s FAILING Ryugyong hotel makes the One People’s library a shoo-in for Best in Show Vainglorious Architecture Awards.
    Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Now the ultimate challenge is here, and the stakes couldn't be higher because if the fighters from Earth aren't victorious, Outworld overlord Shao Kahn (Martyn Ford) will invade and take over the planet.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The Big Ten has officially sealed its status as our new overlord.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • His breakthrough came playing Oda Nobunaga, the volatile 16th-century warlord, in an NHK taiga drama that ran for much of the year.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The third season showed two galactic powers coming together to fight a fearsome warlord known as The Mule (Pilou Asbæk).
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Civil War, or an oppressor who wants to kill you.
    Mariam Khan, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • In the piece, the Vicar of Christ is felled not by his oppressors but rather by a random cosmic event.
    Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The despot’s dilemma Iran’s cameras have been repeatedly hacked over the past few years.
    Dake Kang, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Thus, to be real peace-makers, whether Christian or not, responsible leaders need to be aware that the approach of pacifism often paves the way for dictators and despots to inflict more and more violence.
    Bill Keane, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Rácz has been interpreted as a foil to Vladimír Mečiar, a real-life politician who served as Slovakia’s prime minister between 1990 and 1998 and was heavily criticized for his autocratic tendencies, strongman persona, and ties to organized crime.
    Big Think, Big Think, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The narrative centers on Roh Tae-woo, a man who cultivates a public image as an everyman while working the levers of influence alongside military strongman Chun Doo-hwan.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
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“Autarch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autarch. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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