tyrants

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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

“Dictators, tyrants and kings build monumental architecture to buttress their own egos, which is called authoritarian monumentalism,” Gilmore writes.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025

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