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lord

[lawrd] / lɔrd /


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RJ Mitte, the actor who played the son of drug lord Walter White in “Breaking Bad,” has died at 34.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Robert Briscoe, who was both a celebrated Irish revolutionary and an Orthodox Jew, became lord mayor of Dublin in the 1950s.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Xenophon became in essence a mercenary lord, somewhat like the condottieri of Renaissance Italy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Lammy is also lord chancellor and justice secretary, having previously been foreign secretary.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

None knew him, but one and another wondered at him and said, “Can he be Apollo? Or Aphrodite’s lord? Not one of Poseidon’s bold sons, for they are dead.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

And where are the sponsored hydration breaks—have the college sports pooh-bahs learned nothing from the dark lords of FIFA?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Colombia is also trying to emerge from 50 years of fighting spawned by a complex blend of leftist rebels, paramilitaries and drug lords.

From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026

These lords turned Finlaggan into a power base from where they controlled the Hebrides, Argyll and parts of the north west Highlands.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025

But a silly military parade isn’t going to help, unless they actually were going after undocumented drug lords — but there was no immediate evidence of that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025

In England, abolitionists spoke up for Africans, but kings and lords still ruled.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson


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