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czar

[zahr, tsahr] / zɑr, tsɑr /
NOUN
emperor
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Bill Frauenhofer, the veteran semiconductor industry investment banker who serves as the administration’s chips czar, is even more in the weeds of Intel’s business.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

Two top Trump administration officials, border czar Tom Homan and acting ICE director David Venturella, previously worked for the GEO Group.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

It was signed in La Paz less than two weeks after the Bolivian president named the country's "drug czar" Ernesto Justiniano as the new defence minister.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

His former AI czar had reportedly called Trump directly to raise objections.

From Barron's May 22, 2026

The last czar, Nicholas II, resigned his power in March 1917.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

“Back in the time of the czars, or Stalin, Russia’s great strength was that it was so big that it could always just absorb invading armies,” said retired Lt.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 25, 2025

Disaffected Twitter users have flocked to Threads, Zuckerberg’s copycat platform, seemingly forgiving him for a lifetime of social ills in the process, proving that it’s exhausting to loathe multiple tech czars for multiple reasons.

From Slate Oct. 30, 2024

Aware that some images and media segments from the isolated, authoritarian state have become objects of ridicule in the wider world, Pyongyang propaganda czars are raising their game, according to a leading South Korean scholar.

From Washington Times Aug. 30, 2023

“You know, our usual Russian grumbling, taxes and corruption. We criticize — the czars, Stalin and his gulag, Yeltsin — and we accept.”

From New York Times Aug. 6, 2023

These were the secret, underground tactics of the political movement of the Communists under the czars of Old Russia!

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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