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czar

[zahr, tsahr] / zɑr, tsɑr /
NOUN
emperor
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A czar who can be overruled overnight on the central tactics of his own operation is not a czar.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

As the World Cup hits the halfway mark, more than 1,000 drones have been detected near stadiums and over 300 of them neutralized by authorities, the White House's tournament czar said Monday.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

It was signed in La Paz less than two weeks after the Bolivian president named the country's "drug czar" Ernesto Justiniano as the new defence minister.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

Several months ago, McDonnell quietly replaced the department’s Olympics czar, Cmdr.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2026

“Think of the responsibility which you are asking me to take!” the czar told his foreign minister.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Cooperating with Russia placed a brake on successive czars.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 17, 2025

Urban renewal czars also cleared out lively urban neighborhoods from Boston to Los Angeles, and no major city was untouched by the urban expressway craze.

From Slate Sep. 16, 2024

Aware that some images and media segments from the isolated, authoritarian state have become objects of ridicule in the wider world, Pyongyang propaganda czars are raising their game, according to a leading South Korean scholar.

From Washington Times Aug. 30, 2023

“You know, our usual Russian grumbling, taxes and corruption. We criticize — the czars, Stalin and his gulag, Yeltsin — and we accept.”

From New York Times Aug. 6, 2023

These were the secret, underground tactics of the political movement of the Communists under the czars of Old Russia!

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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