tyrant
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Mr. Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, is the author of “Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
It's in "Tyrant" where Beyoncé gets real weird — so weird it's challenging and most importantly fun.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2024
"I found a new name for you: 'The Ugly Tyrant Clown'," she wrote in the letter to Mr Trump, according to FBI charging documents filed in 2020.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2023
“I found a new name for you: ‘The Ugly Tyrant Clown’,” Ferrier wrote in her letter to Trump.
From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2023
The little Red-backed Tyrant comes nearest to Muscisaxicola mentalis in habits, but does not perch on bushes and trees, and is less gregarious- 135 - than that bird.
From Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act III
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