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quadrumvirate

[kwo-druhm-ver-it, -vuh-rayt] / kwɒˈdrʌm vər ɪt, -vəˌreɪt /


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It was founded as a private banking house in 1883 by the late Charles Crocker, one of the quadrumvirate that built Southern Pacific RR.*

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One of the quietly dramatic aspects of the picture drawn by Authors Alsop & Kintner is how, in the face of the facts told by the cables, the quadrumvirate of policy-makers moved with virtual unanimity.

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Beneath the top quadrumvirate of Nixon's palace guard and trusted advisers—Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Kissinger and Mitchell—there are many key second-echelon figures.

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Despite his illness, Giap, 63, is still part of the quadrumvirate that has ruled North Viet Nam since Ho's death in 1969.

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He had the justification in his own mind that the quadrumvirate had been ready to desert him anyhow.

From The Titan by Theodore Dreiser


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