strongman

Example Sentences

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His low-key approach, say some papal observers, has made it harder for him to make himself heard in a wider world that’s being shaken up by populism, strongman leaders and raw power politics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

In fact he is the opposite — a domineering strongman who seeks to bully everyone around him into compliance.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

Inside the ornate former presidential palace, photographs and oral testimony detail the grinding poverty and ingrained corruption of the dictatorship of Cuba's then-military strongman, Fulgencio Batista.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

Sargeant was close enough to Nicolás Maduro that the strongman called him abuelo, Spanish for grandfather.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Gina sets her arms into a strongman pose and shouts, “Bring it!”

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti