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pharaoh

noun

ˈfer-(ˌ)ō

Definition of pharaoh

as in dictator

a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way like some pharaoh of a third-world country, more interested in building monuments to himself than in creating a future for his people

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Recent Examples of pharaoh Ozymandias is the ancient Greek name for Ramses II, one of ancient Egypt’s most powerful and long-serving pharaohs. — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2026 Last year, also near Luxor, a large tomb belonging to a pharaoh was reopened to visitors after more than 20 years of renovation. — CBS News, 12 July 2026 In Egypt, certain pharaohs seemed, for reasons still debated, to tilt their own representations from the ideal to the natural. — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 Her male counterparts were also well represented, with pharaohs donning headdresses of various eras, their outfits playing on the contrast between polished, hammered, engraved and even beaded golds. — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 9 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for pharaoh

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For years the company has rewritten its own rules, redesigned its products, and even bent to the demands of dictators to preserve market access.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos signed the Carter-Torrijos Treaties transferring control of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama by 2000.

— USA Today, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

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Netanyahu brands Erdogan an ‘antisemitic tyrant’ Netanyahu and Katz have pushed back on the political motivation narrative, warning instead of an impending Turkish footprint in Syria.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
Some tin-pot tyrant decides their country really owns part of another and invades.

— Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 16 Aug. 2026

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