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tyrannizer

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Definition of tyrannizer

as in tyrant

a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way a petty tyrannizer, the alcoholic father made his family suffer the cost of his many personal failures

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He got obsessed with building an empire, started Solar Productions, and became a tyrant both on set and off.

— Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026
Plato warned that an unhealthy democracy can easily fall prey to a tyrant.

— Kenneth Michael White, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026

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Real Madrid stood firm longer than most clubs would – all of a few hours – before bending the knee to China and issuing a formal apology amid the controversy and backlash involving forward Kylian Mbappe and a meme of the late dictator Mao Zedong.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026
Naval engineers built elegant streets lined with glass balconies that became the envy of northwestern Spain, and more than a century later, Spain’s future dictator, Francisco Franco, the son of a naval officer, was born there.

— Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2026

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