putsch
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Aung San's wartime comrade Ne Win, who had taken the helm of the armed forces after the leader's assassination in murky circumstances, swooped in in a putsch he justified as protection against Myanmar's disintegration.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
In Niger, the circumstances surrounding the 2023 putsch were equally distinctive.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025
Though they largely put down the putsch, many then turned their wrath on Alawites, a largely impoverished minority that constitutes some 10% of the country’s population and which dominated Assad-era security services and state bureaucracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
Gen. Sylvain Ekenge, initially offered little detail about the purported putsch in the capital, Kinshasa, other than to say that the plotters and their leader had been “put out of action.”
From New York Times ● May 19, 2024
Not like the pianists of today who prance up and down the key-board with passages in which they have exercised themselves,—putsch, putsch, putsch;—what does that mean?
From Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Henry Edward Krehbiel
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