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The Oscar-winning actor has embodied pure menace more than once throughout his decades-long career, with roles ranging from the iconic vampire of Bram Stoker's Dracula to the peacock warlord, Lord Shen, in Kung Fu Panda 2.
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Shania Russell, EW.com, 18 June 2025
In this new adventure, players will face a vast and brutal conflict where demonic forces, warlords, and opportunistic factions clash for control.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 13 June 2025
In the aftermath of great empires, regional warlords allied, feuded and fought each other for centuries before nations emerged, and largely did the same.
—Nic Robertson, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2025
The zombie warlord is an interdimensional memeplex called SCP-3125.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
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Shania Russell, EW.com, 18 June 2025
In this new adventure, players will face a vast and brutal conflict where demonic forces, warlords, and opportunistic factions clash for control.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 13 June 2025
In the aftermath of great empires, regional warlords allied, feuded and fought each other for centuries before nations emerged, and largely did the same.
—Nic Robertson, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2025
The zombie warlord is an interdimensional memeplex called SCP-3125.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for warlord
Noun
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Here the overlords do not wield violence themselves but quietly condone it for the sake of preserving the order on which their privilege rests.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
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The question was whether these self-assembly processes could work with no human overlords around.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
27 July 2025
Noun
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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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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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Advertisement Advertisement That makes The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia, House’s new book about Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, essential reading.—
Edward Felsenthal,
Time,
23 July 2025
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Hadrian’s Aqueduct, commissioned by Emperor Hadrian in 125 C.E. and completed in 140, is one of several projects the ruler, known for his proclivity to build, has to his name.—
Christian Thorsberg,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 July 2025
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This season could be important for Gutekunst’s long-term future in the job, and what better way to make a statement to your new boss than acquiring a player who could help the Packers return to the game’s biggest stage?—
Jon Machota,
New York Times,
2 Aug. 2025
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In June, a Mexican man was arrested while his boss, a U.S. citizen, was driving him and his brother to a construction site.—
Natalia Jaramillo,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 Aug. 2025
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Why don’t all the rich potentates, sheiks, oligarchs and MAGA dictators meet and fix it?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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With the pandemic, the year-round population of a once-seasonal resort town swelled with Manhattan refugees, those in the Trump orbit, and tech and finance potentates, many of them serious collectors like Ken Griffin and Steve Ross.—
Ben Widdicombe,
Vulture,
12 May 2025
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“Warlord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warlord. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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