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Recent Examples of overlord
Netflix loves itself a heist drama — and its latest one, greenlit on Wednesday, hails from executive producer Courtney A. Kemp (overlord of the Power universe) and series creator Tani Marole.
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 5 Mar. 2025
Elsewhere, June’s former overlord and foe, Serena Joy Watford (Yvonne Strahovski), tries to make sense of her role in this new landscape, and perhaps even bring reform to Gilead.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
Kitana, as well as Martyn Ford (House of David, Those About to Die) as Outworld overlord Shao Kahn.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Kidding, but that does seem like something the corporate overlords might say.
—Abby Monteil, Them, 15 Jan. 2025
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 5 Mar. 2025
Elsewhere, June’s former overlord and foe, Serena Joy Watford (Yvonne Strahovski), tries to make sense of her role in this new landscape, and perhaps even bring reform to Gilead.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
Kitana, as well as Martyn Ford (House of David, Those About to Die) as Outworld overlord Shao Kahn.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Kidding, but that does seem like something the corporate overlords might say.
—Abby Monteil, Them, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overlord
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Correa is accused of participating in beatings, electrocutions and other forms of abuses while allegedly acting as part of a death squad operating under former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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The trouble with international prosecutions The ICC has a long list of outstanding arrest warrants, including for former dictator Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan for three decades before being deposed in 2019.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2025
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Hope: Ultimately, the protests suggest the possibility that, eventually, an overwhelming majority of Palestinians will never again allow themselves to be ruled by revanchist tyrants of any shade.—
Bret Stephens,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2025
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Synopsis: Before kings and empires feared him, a tyrant sought to erase him.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2025
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The Mobutu regime finally fell to rebels in 1997, and the despot who had looted over $5 billion in wealth from his land was forced into exile to Morocco.—
Saleem H. Ali,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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When Trump announced recently that the program would be killed, there were celebratory announcements from petty despots around the world—in Belarus, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2025
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Travelers may see a variety of penguins including Adélie, emperor, chinstrap, king, rockhopper, gentoo and macaroni.—
Judy Koutsky,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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The artifacts likely date back to the period when the Roman emperor Claudius was invading Britain.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
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In the early 1980s, Chamberlain gained a reputation as the king of the miniseries for his starring roles in Shogun, The Thorn Birds and Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
30 Mar. 2025
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The king of action production powered forward with Cliffhanger (1993), starring Stallone and directed by Renny Harlin, a stellar man vs. nature and man vs. his past thriller.—
Chris Yogerst,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Mar. 2025
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In February of last year, Harry’s claim was dismissed, a decision which the prince appealed.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2025
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Stuart’s prince is suave, worldly, world-weary, charismatic — every inch a prince, really.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
7 Apr. 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 16 Apr. 2025.
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