coup d'etat
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Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year prison sentence for an attempted coup d'etat, underwent successful surgery on Thursday to repair an inguinal hernia, his wife said.
From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025
In the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, there has been a civil war going on since a military coup d’etat in 2021.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2023
"We are no longer there to be the substitute for a coup d'etat or a failing political process," Macron said.
From Reuters • Jun. 21, 2023
However, on 17 June, Ben Bella's own Minister of Defence Houari Boumediene carried out a coup d'etat, deposing the president and cancelling the second match.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2022
On the morning following the "coup d'etat" a report reached the State House that a company of colored men, commanded by Gen. King White, from Pine Bluff, had arrived and was quartered on Rock Street.
From Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century by Washington, Booker T.
