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coup

[koo] / ku /


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Since the coup, the rate of young people feeling "unsafe" or "very unsafe" walking alone at night has more than doubled to 40 percent, according to a 2025 UN report.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

The setting, which changes from a blank Brutalism to a trailer-park-home installation suggesting one of Arnold’s cold-eyed dioramas, creates its own theatrical coup.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Between the 2021 coup and being elected president, Min Aung Hlaing has travelled to Russia and China.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

On April 1, 1941, the “Golden Square”—four pro-Nazi officers—seized power in a military coup.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Of the coup, in August, I’m sure we’d understood nothing.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver




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