dictator
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“After the dictator fell, gender expression should have been the natural extension of that kind of freedom. But there’s a kind of retaliation happening,” Zaalan shared.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
At the Justice Department, Mueller prosecuted Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and the perpetrators of the Lockerbie bombing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
Iraq was a state with deep sectarian divisions that was largely dominated by a single dictator: Saddam Hussein.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
Khomeini, then 76, needed a new bolthole after being expelled from his exiled base in the Iraqi city of Najaf by the country's dictator Saddam Hussein.
From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026
He was turning out to be quite a little dictator.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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