tyrant
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He’s also at work with a few others reviving New York avant-garde small publisher Tyrant Press.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
Mr. Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, is the author of “Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
And none more so than Harald Hardrada, Harald the Hard-Ruler or Tyrant, whose marauding ways came to an end in England at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, near York, in the pivotal year of 1066.
From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021
Pickup's career break came in 1964 with a role as a physician in Doctor Who episode The Tyrant Of France.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2021
Mr. Oswald: The following lines are addressed to a most infamous Tyrant, ... and to a noted speculator when high in office.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip
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