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usurper
noun as in dictator
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noun as in strongman
Example Sentences
The Fremen, whose home planet is Arrakis, where Spice is mined, bedevil the miners and the troops that protect them and, as the indigenous population battling imperial usurpers, are the faction you should root for.
Luckily the voters have managed to keep the most powerful would-be usurpers out of office and Congress set up some serious roadblocks.
He’d recently been instructed to sign a request for a presidential pardon but refused to beg for mercy from Vladimir Putin, who he denounces as “a dictator, usurper and a murderer”.
As the manor devolves into something like “Lord of the Flies,” our hedonistic interloper uses this opening to become a usurper.
If you leave your sunbed for too long, your possessions are unceremoniously turfed to make space for the long queue of would-be usurpers.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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