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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 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 To tell the pharaoh's story in depth, NPR art director Jackie Lay lays out Hatshepsut's history through illustrations. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 3 Apr. 2026 Ultimately, the pharaoh’s prescient spiritual optimism comes in conflict with the all-powerful establishment priests, who kill Akhnaten and Nefertiti. — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026 The Arab Republic of Egypt (1953) stakes a natural claim to the Rosetta Stone, which was commissioned in 196 BCE by a Greek-speaking pharaoh of Macedonian descent, and unearthed near Alexandria by French engineers in 1799. — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for pharaoh

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Its flint-hearted ferocity was a return to what the dynasts of the past—warlords, kings, and dictators—would find routine.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
And following the ousting of longtime dictator Bashir Al-Assad, Syria continues to have armed conflict and sectarian violence.

— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026

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Because, after all, as in all of Haber’s novels, the point is not really what is happening in the world but what is happening in the mind—in this case the mind of the pettiest of tyrants.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
Joseph Stalin—the Soviet Union’s supreme ruler from 1929 to 1953 and a murderous tyrant legendary for drinking friends and enemies under the table—was a closet oenophile, the e-mail explained.

— Frankie Mills, Air Mail, 27 June 2026

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