strongman

Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Clayton led the office during high-profile matters including the prosecution of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro on narco-terrorism and drug-trafficking charges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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

I think about that whenever a strongman tries to own what we had on those fields.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

There are sufficient numbers of otherwise normal people who are attracted to the pathocrats because of their charisma and strongman appeal — enough to lift them to power.

From Salon ● May 28, 2026

Sheed looked like a circus strongman lifting his one-handed.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Fabrizio Foschini, a researcher at the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said during earlier decades of war "mining mainly benefited insurgent groups, including the Taliban, and local strongmen with links to corrupt government officials".

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

A percentage of babies born every day will manifest queer characteristics, and though countless strongmen have left fields of carnage in attempts to manage so-called bloodlines, nobody can override such DNA destiny.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025

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