coup d'état
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Elsewhere we learn that, during the 1978 coup d’état, the hotel’s chefs “whipped up special dishes, turning tender steaks and scrumptious cakes into weapons of distraction.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
“In time of coup d’état and autocracy in Africa, this election is an opportunity to reinforce a unique democracy in central Africa,” said Fred Bauma, executive director of Congolese research institute Ebuteli.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
Canada will suspend direct development assistance to the government of Niger in response to the attempted coup d’état in the West African nation, the federal government said on Saturday.
From Reuters ● Aug. 6, 2023
The term "insurrection" is almost synonymous with "coup d'état" and the idea that you are trying to overthrow the government.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2023
He took no part in the Revolution of 1848, and accepted the Republic, but was banished at the coup d'état, though not for long.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year prison sentence for an attempted coup d'etat, underwent successful surgery on Thursday to repair an inguinal hernia, his wife said.
From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025
President Park Chun-hee, a military dictator who took power in a coup d’etat in 1963, suggested that the company make the broth spicy in order to appeal to Korean palates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
In the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, there has been a civil war going on since a military coup d’etat in 2021.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2023
West Africa's main regional and economic bloc, ECOWAS, said it was concerned about an attempted coup d'etat and called on the plotters to free Bazoum.
From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2023
Too readily crediting a slanderous charge brought against his father-in-law, Kurayamada, who had stood at his right hand in the great coup d'etat of 645, he despatched a force to seize the alleged traitor.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
