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Recent Examples of overlord
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By the finale, his effort to lead a rebellion against the game's overlords was thwarted, leaving his fate unclear and ending the season on a massive cliffhanger.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
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
Zeus The hot-headed, thunderbolt-wielding, amorous overlord of Olympus.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025
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Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 15 Feb. 2025
By the finale, his effort to lead a rebellion against the game's overlords was thwarted, leaving his fate unclear and ending the season on a massive cliffhanger.
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
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
Zeus The hot-headed, thunderbolt-wielding, amorous overlord of Olympus.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overlord
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In October of 2023, Hamas militants attacked Israel and in an unforeseen chain of events Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was overthrown.—
Kevin Kruse,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Apparently, for Trump, Ukraine's continuing resistance to invasion constitutes something of a nuisance that threatens to get in the way of making deals with a brutal dictator.—
Bradley Gitz,
arkansasonline.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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John Lithgow plays an elderly care home tyrant out to drive an arrogant and partially paralyzed judge, played by Geoffrey Rush, insane in the official trailer for The Rule of Jenny Pen, which dropped Monday.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Feb. 2025
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The Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth of tyrants, back-to-back.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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His pain pours out, like a long cry from Syria’s dungeons, a cry that was silenced during more than half a century of rule by brutal despots, Bashar al-Assad, and his father, Hafez, before him.—
Scott Peterson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
31 Jan. 2025
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The rationale for the legislation is that Congress doesn’t want despots in North Korea or Russia or Iran or China to have reams of private and personal information on half of the country.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
12 Jan. 2025
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It was commissioned by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife and later became his own resting place, as well.—
Morgan Goldberg,
Architectural Digest,
25 Feb. 2025
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In a final act of capitulation, the seven-year-old Song emperor, Zhao Bing, drowned himself to evade capture by the Mongol navy.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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Watch Black Widow on Disney+ Black Panther Following his father’s death, T’Challa returns home to Wakanda, a secretive nation with impressive technological advancements, to take his place as king.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
People.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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And a civilization in ancient Mesopotamia saw the blood red moon as a bad omen for the king.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2025
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In addition to the titles of prince and princess, Jacques is also the Marquis of Baux and Gabriella is the Countess of Carladès.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
5 Mar. 2025
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They were granted the titles of prince and princess after their grandfather, 76, ascended to the throne in 2022.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
4 Mar. 2025
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By contrast, given Russia's dominant role in the CU, joining that group would transform Yanukovych into a satrap of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whom Yanukovych regards as the avatar of Russian arrogance.—
Rajan Menon,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Oct. 2011
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The quick collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satraps unsettled both nations.—
Christian Schneider,
National Review,
21 Dec. 2023
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Witkoff went from Qatar to Israel on Saturday and insisted on having a meeting with the prime minister on the afternoon of the Jewish sabbath—a violation of Israeli protocol rudely designed to remind Netanyahu who was the vassal and who was the suzerain.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2025
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Citizens of countries historically exploited by the West face higher financial and bureaucratic hurdles to access facilities and resources concentrated in their former suzerain.—
WIRED,
WIRED,
26 Aug. 2022
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“Overlord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overlord. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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