domineering
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In fact he is the opposite — a domineering strongman who seeks to bully everyone around him into compliance.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
In a four-hour encounter, Hassan questioned him in a level but domineering voice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Highlights include a pair of shoes worn by the domineering Miss Piggy in a "Muppets" movie, as well as puppets from "Fraggle Rock" and characters from the Netflix series "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance."
From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025
Hernandez’s Bastian is a formidable presence, angry, strict and domineering — the qualities he’s needed to navigate a bureaucratic system that has little concern for the feelings of immigrant outsiders.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2025
Shin remembers him being just as cold, distant, and domineering as the others.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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