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czar

[zahr, tsahr] / zɑr, tsɑr /
NOUN
emperor
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Bolivia and the United States have resumed joint anti-drug trafficking investigations, the South American country's drugs czar Ernesto Justiniano told AFP on Wednesday.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Tom Homan, then a top ICE official and now Trump’s border czar, introduced the directive to field offices around the country.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Key Democratic and Republican senators huddled with DHS border czar Tom Homan on Thursday, but the meeting didn’t produce a deal.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

The 2014 downfall of Zhou Yongkang, the former domestic security czar, offers a possible template.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Before he received the czar’s telegram, the kaiser had sent the czar a telegram of his own, signed “Your very sincere and devoted friend and cousin, Willy.”

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman