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czar

[zahr, tsahr] / zɑr, tsɑr /
NOUN
emperor
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Last summer, top Chinese chip developer Huawei Technologies held a closed-door briefing for the country’s technology czar to introduce its latest artificial-intelligence chips.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

A czar who can be overruled overnight on the central tactics of his own operation is not a czar.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

It was signed in La Paz less than two weeks after the Bolivian president named the country's "drug czar" Ernesto Justiniano as the new defence minister.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

His former AI czar had reportedly called Trump directly to raise objections.

From Barron's May 22, 2026

Bloom recognized also that as czar of the Midway he no longer had to worry about seeking a concession for his Algerian Village.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

“Back in the time of the czars, or Stalin, Russia’s great strength was that it was so big that it could always just absorb invading armies,” said retired Lt.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 25, 2025

Urban renewal czars also cleared out lively urban neighborhoods from Boston to Los Angeles, and no major city was untouched by the urban expressway craze.

From Slate Sep. 16, 2024

Aware that some images and media segments from the isolated, authoritarian state have become objects of ridicule in the wider world, Pyongyang propaganda czars are raising their game, according to a leading South Korean scholar.

From Washington Times Aug. 30, 2023

“You know, our usual Russian grumbling, taxes and corruption. We criticize — the czars, Stalin and his gulag, Yeltsin — and we accept.”

From New York Times Aug. 6, 2023

These were the secret, underground tactics of the political movement of the Communists under the czars of Old Russia!

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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