tyrant

Demographer Juan Carlos Albizu-Campos estimates it is now as low as eight million, only slightly more than 67 years ago, when Fidel Castro declared, "The tyrant has fled... the revolution has triumphed!"

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

He informally referred to them as "Tylosaurus thalassotyrannus," meaning "sea tyrant."

From Science Daily ● May 23, 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

“The Roman, not the Sassenach, was for him the tyrant of the islanders,” Joyce wrote in “Stephen Hero,” referring to the Catholic Church and the English, respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

“For that bit of impertinence you may polish the coal stove tomorrow. This room is the perfect place for a noisy, I might say badly spoiled, little tyrant to have his sulks in private.”

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

Abigail Adams recognized this tension immediately, writing to her husband to “remember the ladies” and warning that “all Men would be tyrants if they could.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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

Shortly after Museveni took power in 1986, ending years of bloodshed and chaos under murderous tyrants, the young president mused that leaders overstaying their welcome lay at the heart of Africa's problems.

From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026

Humans have laughed at tyrants going back to the days of the ancient Greeks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025

After leaping from the balcony Booth will stand tall and, in his best actor’s voice, pronounce the Latin phrase sic semper tyrannis—thus always to tyrants.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly