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coup

noun as in achievement, often by maneuver

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President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti claims he survived a coup attempt on Sunday.

From Axios

To stop the coup they feared, the left was ready to flood the streets.

From Time

Thailand, where the military remains in power after a successful coup in 2014, will be only too happy to continue trade with Myanmar.

From Time

Myanmar pulled the plug during a military coup d’état this weekend, as Aaron noted in yesterday’s newsletter.

From Fortune

Where there’s a coup, there will probably be an internet outage.

From Axios

As it happened, the coup members found the State House “fortified with additional soldiers.”

Most coup members “lived in the diaspora in the United States and Germany,” Faal said.

That Stone would slander the democratic, pro-Western, EuroMaidan revolution as a CIA coup is no surprise.

Perhaps in part because it was an FBI coup, the CIA stepped in with its high-priced psychologist.

Had the coup succeeded, the Qatar problem might have become still worse than it is.

Le lendemain matin, un coup de vent l'emporta tout seul dehors de la chaloupe dans les vagues, et jamais depuis, n'est apparu.

My coup-d'œil assured me that it was practicable to give to this feature the character of a projecting under-jaw.

On ne peut arracher tout d'un coup les coutumes & faons de faire inveteres d'un peuple quel que ce soit.

Calm under fire, he possessed a sure and penetrating coup d'œil; he had great experience in war.

Constantinople serait directement menacé par ce coup retentissant.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to coup, such as: action, overthrow, plot, revolution, accomplishment, and deed.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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