How to Use overlord in a Sentence

overlord

noun
  • He is the overlord of the underground gambling industry.
  • Our robot overlords aren’t here to kill the job.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Congress needs to pass laws; the tech overlords just need to push code to screw things up.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
  • What are the machine overlords looking for?
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Dozens of states in Asia and Africa threw off colonial overlords.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Hyundai wants to bring us one step closer to our robot overlord future.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2021
  • In the real world, the bots aren’t our overlords so much as the enablers of our boredom.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Compared with human overlords, the dogs would treat us pretty well.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
  • Tech, once the overlord of the stock market, has had a rough 2022.
    — Larry Light, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • The corporate overlords need to get off their fat … wallets.
    — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The corporate overlords need to get off their fat … wallets.
    — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Not in a fealty sense to some cognitive overlord but rather as a partner.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • So what is this mystery silo and are there overlords living inside it?
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • When our robot overlords take control, the Ioniq will be ready.
    — Car and Driver, 12 Mar. 2018
  • So producers end up serving the wishes of their bot overlords.
    — Madeline Ashby, WIRED, 17 July 2023
  • Kidding, but that does seem like something the corporate overlords might say.
    — Abby Monteil, Them, 15 Jan. 2025
  • No banks, no corporate overlords.
    — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Email the team’s corporate overlords.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Ellison is soon to be an overlord of TikTok as well.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Charlene stuck to the gag order from her overlords in Arkansas and didn’t go on the record.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The merchant class—the overlords who paid hosiers and croppers and weavers for the work—began looking for ways to shrink their costs.
    — Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 29 Jan. 2017
  • The merchant class—the overlords who paid hosiers and croppers and weavers for the work—began looking for ways to shrink their costs.
    — Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • The worst thing their parents can do isn’t sacrificing children to an alien overlord.
    — Samantha Nelson, The Verge, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Over the last few weeks, several scholars said there are good reasons to be sanguine about our new tech overlords.
    — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • And the Midwest bows down to its Ohio college football overlords.
    — cleveland, 9 Dec. 2019
  • There are also corporate overlords, who are never seen.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Following the presale round, the live-event overlords canceled the public on-sale.
    — Vulture, 7 Apr. 2023
  • All conflict is gone; the hive mind is united in a collective purpose of pacifist overlords.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • But what happens to the customers of these smaller companies when their overlords tighten the reins?
    — Wired, 8 Nov. 2019
  • But our Seattle e-commerce overlords have trained us to expect it in mid-July.
    — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 3 July 2018

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