potentate

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Stripping away the amour propre of a nuclear-armed potentate is a dangerous business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

With the cabinet not having met since 2018, all power flows through him, and like a potentate he receives a string of local officials and foreign dignitaries at his retreat.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025

As my colleague Mike DiGiovanna compiled the statistics from sources including Forbes and other potentate trackers, even the most poverty-stricken owners have net worths in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2022

At last year’s Barcelona Olympics, he was treated more as a potentate or rock star than a basketball player.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2022

By this time, too, its powers, its duties, and its mode of procedure had become thoroughly defined and universally recognized, and neither prelate nor potentate dared to call them in question.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles