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czar

[zahr, tsahr] / zɑr, tsɑr /
NOUN
emperor
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Jay Clayton, head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, will chair the group, effectively making him President Trump’s AI czar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Gebbia is among the candidates to be AI czar, people familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

At the same time, he has promised to name an AI czar and set up an “AI Force,” which would be similar the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

White House czar Tom Homan defended the deportations in a recent CNN interview.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

The last czar, Nicholas II, resigned his power in March 1917.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

It’s the foundation for the entire sovereign debt market — and is so widely honored that in 2002, Russia was still paying obligations from the time of the czars.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

The tradition mostly died when Napoleon defeated the last holy Roman emperor, Francis II, in 1805, although Russian Orthodox theology sometimes still casts the czars in the role of Katechon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Disaffected Twitter users have flocked to Threads, Zuckerberg’s copycat platform, seemingly forgiving him for a lifetime of social ills in the process, proving that it’s exhausting to loathe multiple tech czars for multiple reasons.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2024

The Russian Imperial Mission Society, which was founded by Romanov czars to support Orthodox mission work in Siberia and Alaska, gave the church many of the artifacts still kept there, Rivas said.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2023

I had read with awe how the Communists had sent phonetic experts into the vast regions of Russia to listen to the stammering dialects of peoples oppressed for centuries by the czars.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright


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