strongman

Example Sentences

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“This doesn’t read as strongman politics to them,” she said.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026

The diplomatic dispute arises from the ambiguous role that Rwanda, best known to many Americans for the 1994 genocide, now plays as a regional strongman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 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

When the trooper, too, began to get teary, Truman fell back on his strongman act of bravado.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone