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There they inspected the Declaration of Independence, which marks its 250th anniversary this year and which set out the path for American independence from the "tyrant" British king.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

The framers of the Constitution “did not want a tyrant, a monarch, a demagogue.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

But postwar Germany, unlike France after Napoleon, had no victory to celebrate and no one left who was eager to honor the fallen tyrant.

From Salon ● May 3, 2026

But she also concludes that George III wasn’t a tyrant, just a king “ill advised by ministers obsessed by debt,” and the unavoidable fact that their empire, expanding for centuries, was now shrinking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

And what of the president—had Booth killed Abraham Lincoln, or did the tyrant still live?

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

The tiny tyrants have ravaged Southern California, leaving disease and death in their wake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

They eat specially curated dinners, strut around in breeders’ shows and often rule over their owners like whiskered tyrants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The pontiff responded by saying he had a "moral duty to speak out" against war -- and then sparked more headlines with a speech in Cameroon lambasting "tyrants" ransacking the world.

From Barron's ● May 3, 2026

Pope Leo has criticised leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants" in unusually forceful comments during a visit to Cameroon.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

For weeks I had studied maps, large-scale and small, but maps are not reality at all—they can be tyrants.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck