potentate
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Stripping away the amour propre of a nuclear-armed potentate is a dangerous business.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025
With the cabinet not having met since 2018, all power flows through him, and like a potentate he receives a string of local officials and foreign dignitaries at his retreat.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025
Feinstein ruled over San Francisco like a potentate, hands on and fingernails dug in.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023
At last year’s Barcelona Olympics, he was treated more as a potentate or rock star than a basketball player.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2022
So, too, the cruel potentate may prove a kind husband and friend, as long as his own interests coincide, and do not conflict, with those of his friends or his family.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.
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