overlord
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Mr. Washington, star of Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” has one of the richer roles, as the tech overlord who with supple suavity plays upon his friends’ weaknesses and sensitivities to achieve his ends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
In comparing those statistics with those of its former colonial overlord, Hartnett, Bank of America’s chief equity strategist, found an emphatic stateside outperformance on almost all fronts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
There’s even a plot point involving an algorithmic overlord that creates randomly generated armies: “Ghostbusters” with AI slop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
"I think Your Idol is such a banger," says Kang about song the Saja Boys sing while feeding the souls of their audience to the evil overlord Gwi-Ma.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
At the moment Tikal was divided, Kaan conquered it, forcing both brothers to recognize the other city as their overlord.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
In short, Wall Street welcomes our robot overlords.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
Arcadia is hardly the only book publisher to ink such opaque contracts with the A.I. overlords, despite the spirited objections and lawsuits brought by various authors.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2025
Who wants dull stocks that merely make predictable profits and give them back to shareholders, when you could bet on the creation of our new robot overlords?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
If anything, the Czechs hated their Nazi overlords.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
