potentate

Example Sentences

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At last year’s Barcelona Olympics, he was treated more as a potentate or rock star than a basketball player.

From Seattle Times

“It looks like a state, it sounds like a state, but ultimately when it comes to the assets of the country,” he said, many of the potentates “act like absolute monarchs disposing of personal property.”

From Seattle Times

Not only are these imaginary tribes of women wittily conceived, but they also remind us of motherhood’s shared experiences: the changing bodies, disrupted sleep schedules and tiny potentates demanding macaroni again and again.

From Washington Post

By all accounts, Colombian veterans make exceptional guns for hire for deep-pocketed potentates, warlords and others seeking to create or bolster an army — or assemble a hit squad.

From Los Angeles Times

He argued that his client was the victim of a wide-ranging conspiracy of local potentates.

From Los Angeles Times