strongman
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On his return to Kosovo, he earned the nom de guerre "Snake" as he helped build an underground guerrilla army, the KLA, to fight for independence from the forces of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
The court had determined that the strongman had given Chey 30bn Korean won from his slush fund in 1991, and told Chey to pay 1.38tn to his ex-wife.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Darwin Silva, 37, came to collect the remains of his mother, who died in the Hugo Chavez social housing complex, a flagship program of the late strongman leader.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
I think about that whenever a strongman tries to own what we had on those fields.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Sheed looked like a circus strongman lifting his one-handed.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
It was a fitting conversation for two strongmen, who have described each other as best friends, and who, after a combined 39 years in power, show no signs of stepping down.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
Among the many contentious strongmen who have popped up worldwide in the first decades of the 21st century, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey is the most confounding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
The father and son strongmen have frequently paired up to train together and have been spotted rehearsing the elegant poses that made Schwarzenegger a star.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Many countries fell under the domination of caudillos, or strongmen whose power stemmed from financial control of the land’s resources.
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
I hadn’t seen it while they were sitting, but now that they were moving it was painfully obvious they were church strongmen.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
