gladiator
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On this week’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick talked with election law gladiator Marc Elias, chair of Elias Law Group and founder of Democracy Docket.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2026
Commodus, now a teenager, had shown he had none of his father’s nature; he so preferred athletics to statecraft that some believed he’d been sired by a gladiator.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
Raising his house’s reputation as a formidable gladiator stable is the only path he can see to being accepted into society’s highest echelon.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025
"If Santa Claus is watching, the gladiator would like a nice new pair of blue underpants for Christmas please," he joked.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025
He’d changed out of the gladiator armor and was now wearing a Hawaiian shirt that even Dionysus would’ve found vulgar.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing gladiator
Ancient Rome - Introductory
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The Roman and Byzantine Empires, Lessons 3–4
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