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czar

[zahr, tsahr] / zɑr, tsɑr /
NOUN
emperor
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Former White House AI czar David Sacks called for “panic” to stop around open-weight models, which allow anyone to download for use freely.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

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

She persuaded the czar to let her fly for Russia as a military reconnaissance pilot, scouting out the best direction for soldiers on the ground to fire their guns.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

The shape-shifting country was occupied by the czars and the British in the 19th century; the British stayed until after World War II and had a hand in delineating the oil-rich southern border with Iraq.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

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

Elsewhere in Bellevue, salad czars Evergreens opened its 14th Washington location in Factoria Village.

From Seattle Times Oct. 21, 2023

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

I had read with awe how the Communists had sent phonetic experts into the vast regions of Russia to listen to the stammering dialects of peoples oppressed for centuries by the czars.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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