usurper
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Maybe chairman Payne is the Great Usurper, and maybe the National has changed the lay of the land too much and too fast.
From Golf Digest • Mar. 27, 2017
In the Restoration, with the aristocracy firmly back in power, Elizabeth was crudely mocked in a satirical pamphlet cookbook The Court and Kitchen of Elizabeth, Commonly called Joan Cromwell, the Wife of the Late Usurper.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2014
What the printing press did, quite simply, was undermine ‘the dishonourable tyranny of that Usurper, Authority’ and strengthen evidence.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
“The alliance is to be sealed by a marriage, it says. In return for Dome’s help overthrowing die Usurper, my brother Viserys is to take Prince Doran’s daughter Arianne for his queen.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
For a heartbeat she felt almost sorry for the Usurper.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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