coup
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Suu Kyi is under house arrest in the capital, Naypyidaw, according to Myanmar authorities, where she has been sequestered since being unseated in a 2021 military coup.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Myanmar's military held Suu Kyi in almost total seclusion for five years following the February 2021 coup, which ended a tentative decade-long experiment with democracy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
On Monday, former President Barack Obama announced he would travel to Detroit to stump for El-Sayed, a hard-won coup for the candidate.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
The presentation at MoMA PS1 is a curatorial coup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
But the real coup was how Sofía had managed to have the husbands included this year.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Guinea-Bissau, a Portuguese-speaking country wedged between Senegal and Guinea, has experienced five coups and numerous attempted putsches since independence from Portugal in 1974.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The takeover added Guinea-Bissau to a growing list of western and central African countries that have experienced military coups in recent years.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso left Ecowas after military coups brought their armies to power.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
Pakistan has been directly ruled by its military for nearly half its existence via a series of coups since gaining independence in 1947.
From Barron's ● Apr. 12, 2026
If you wore special glasses you could see them spinning through the sky among the bats and homing birds—blondes, wars, famines, football, food shows, coups d’ etat, hairstyles stiff with hair spray.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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