coup

Tulloch’s hiring was a coup for Meta and capped a frantic recruiting spree last summer, when Meta threw money at researchers to try to catch up in the race to build artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Commuting all death sentences to life in prison “would be the coup de grâce,” Farrell said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

What had looked like a catastrophe turned into a marketing coup: In a wave of nostalgia, millions of Americans rediscovered a tried-and-true product.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

It was a huge coup for the Hammers, pipping the world's best clubs to add 22-year-olds Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano to Alan Pardew's squad.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

But the rebel techno team manages to override even the latter and, in a real coup, keeps control for almost the entire attack on Snow.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

The takeover added Guinea-Bissau to a growing list of western and central African countries that have experienced military coups in recent years.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

A former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, the island nation of 200,000 inhabitants has a history marked by attempted coups including one in 2022 that was promptly thwarted by the military.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

Since coups in 2020 and 2021, Mali has been led by the military, which promised to restore calm in the vast desert nation that has been grappling with a security crisis since 2012.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

Hounkpè's view is significant, as Benin's relationship with the two states plummeted following the coups there.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

If you wore special glasses you could see them spinning through the sky among the bats and homing birds—blondes, wars, famines, football, food shows, coups d’ etat, hairstyles stiff with hair spray.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy