overlord
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Mr. Washington, star of Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” has one of the richer roles, as the tech overlord who with supple suavity plays upon his friends’ weaknesses and sensitivities to achieve his ends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
In comparing those statistics with those of its former colonial overlord, Hartnett, Bank of America’s chief equity strategist, found an emphatic stateside outperformance on almost all fronts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
"I think Your Idol is such a banger," says Kang about song the Saja Boys sing while feeding the souls of their audience to the evil overlord Gwi-Ma.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
First Paul falls in love with Chani, a Fremen warrior who sees the messiah prophecy as overlord propaganda, which naturally threatens to back-burner his mom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
Look at the sporting etiquette, according to which Henry had to withdraw from a siege as soon as his enemy Louis joined the defenders inside the town, because Louis was his feudal overlord.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
But there are technical challenges: AI agents make lots of decisions very fast, and so it's hard for their human overlords to monitor exactly which values are being followed and which aren't.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
Our transit overlords didn’t come up with this rotten idea on their own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Arcadia is hardly the only book publisher to ink such opaque contracts with the A.I. overlords, despite the spirited objections and lawsuits brought by various authors.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2025
The overlords never relaxed their hold on the swinging doors until the bell clanged the end of recess.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
