caudillos

plural of caudillo

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caudillos
Noun
  • 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
  • With 775 rooms, the palace also provides office space for the royal bureaucracy and hosts lavish state dinners for visiting presidents and potentates.
    Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Since overthrowing the Assad dynasty, Syria’s new rulers have struggled to exert control across the country and to check extremist groups.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • For 28 years and counting, Venezuela’s rulers have stolen or squandered much of the oil revenue of the most oil-rich country in the world.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Conquerors and autocrats may win the immediate battle by bullying their subjects into submission, but their empires inevitably crumble the moment their iron grip falters.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • Trump has made clear his disdain for NATO, his affection for Putin, gushes over autocrats, and withholds military support for Ukraine.
    Arthur House, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Not your grandma’s authoritarians Today’s authoritarian rulers realize that civil society has the potential to support democracy and pry loose their grip on power.
    Christopher Justin Einolf, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His job was to cut and paste responses from scripts his scam bosses generated.
    ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026
  • Some bosses are demanding, disorganized or poor communicators but still want their teams to succeed.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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“Caudillos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caudillos. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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