overlord
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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
If not wanting my robot assistant/future overlord to have an image tool makes me an A.I. elitist, as Altman implies, then I will proudly fit myself for a monocle.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 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
It’s fairly obvious who Hawley channeled to create Prodigy’s overlord, whereas Sandra Yi Sencindiver’s Yutani fits a concept; she’s all silk tailoring and iron will.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025
The Valkyries, with their leader Brunnhilde, are the warrior daughters of Wotan, a Zeus-like overlord, and have the second opera of the sequence named after them.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
In short, Wall Street welcomes our robot overlords.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
Our robot overlords are here, and resistance is futile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
And yet his drive, his ambition, his hunger for glory were essential to the enterprise of wresting the colonies from the grip of distant overlords.
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2026
Only in 1428 did Itzacoatl, a newly selected tlatoani, ally with two other small vassal states to overthrow their mutual overlords.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
