"a showbiz czar who is said to be able to make or break a career",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"As well as being his home city, it is named after Peter the Great, the 18th-century modernizing but militant czar to whom Putin favorably compared himself earlier this month. \u2014 Patrick Smith, NBC News , 17 June 2022",
"Everyone from the czar \u2019s wife to the lowliest serf might turn to magic at some juncture in their lives. \u2014 Valerie Kivelson, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 June 2022",
"Intriguingly, India\u2019s vaccine czar Adar Poonawalla advised Musk on Twitter a few days ago to manufacture in India. \u2014 Niharika Sharma, Quartz , 10 May 2022",
"There have been cries for a college commissioner, a czar , but good luck with that \u2014 bonne chance, getting back that chip on the table. \u2014 Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 May 2022",
"The key turning point was a supportive message from a meeting of policy makers, chaired by China\u2019s economic czar , Liu He. \u2014 Jacky Wong, WSJ , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The most vocal inflation hawk over the past year is former Treasury Secretary and former Obama economic czar Larry Summers. \u2014 Zachary Karabell, Time , 13 May 2022",
"Ashish Jha, President Biden\u2019s new Covid czar , told STAT. \u2014 Matthew Herper, STAT , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Does the Covid czar think the Supreme Court should have been precluded from reviewing the CDC\u2019s rental eviction moratorium too? \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022"
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"1555, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin czar , from Russian tsar' , from Old Russian ts\u012dsar\u012d , from Goth kaisar , from Greek or Latin; Greek, from Latin Caesar \u2014 more at caesar":""
"But this all comes at the end of this addictively chronicled history, in six parts, of a deluded autocrat and his equally imperious czarina , German-born and the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. \u2014 Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ , 27 June 2019",
"There is a new gambling czarina \u2014 Governor Charlie Baker appointed Cathy Judd-Stein to the post in January. \u2014 Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com , 7 Aug. 2019",
"Almost to the end, the czar and czarina \u2014secure in their faith that they are adored\u2014scoff at all indicators to the contrary as rumors or malicious lies. \u2014 Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ , 27 June 2019",
"Tamim\u2019s younger sister, Mayassa, is Qatar\u2019s culture czarina \u2014 an art world behemoth who, at the age of 30, had an estimated annual budget of $1 billion. \u2014 Written By Declan Walsh; Photographs By Tomas Munita, New York Times , 22 Jan. 2018",
"There, King Stanislaw II August Poniatowski was trying to rebuild the nation\u2019s strength despite the menacing influence of Russian czarina Catherine the Great, his former lover and patron. \u2014 Erick Trickey, Smithsonian , 8 Mar. 2017",
"Rumor and street culture\u2014jokes, postcards, sayings, bawdy plays performed in saloons\u2014changed the image of the czar and the czarina , desacralized them, before and during the war. \u2014 Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian , 29 Sep. 2017",
"And Thrive Global, the wellness-crusading company that new media czarina Arianna Huffington founded nearly a year ago, didn\u2019t invent downtime. \u2014 Clifton Leaf, Fortune , 19 Oct. 2017",
"The Russian Poles see the new czarina , Marina, a proud Pole, as a champion. \u2014 Anthony Tommasini, New York Times , 31 July 2017"
"historically, during times of national crisis, people have looked to czarism as an answer to their fears",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lenin, Stalin and their epigones, despite their ideological rejection of czarism , acted as de facto Great Russian imperialists in assembling the Soviet Union and maintaining it by brute force. \u2014 George Weigel, WSJ , 27 Jan. 2022",
"The difference between czarism and Leninism is the one between absolutism and totalitarianism. \u2014 Josef Joffe, New York Times , 19 Oct. 2017",
"With the collapse of czarism , this commitment to gradual reform and the development of parliamentary institutions seemed outdated. \u2014 Carolyn Harris, Smithsonian , 13 Apr. 2017"
"historically, during times of national crisis, people have looked to czarism as an answer to their fears",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lenin, Stalin and their epigones, despite their ideological rejection of czarism , acted as de facto Great Russian imperialists in assembling the Soviet Union and maintaining it by brute force. \u2014 George Weigel, WSJ , 27 Jan. 2022",
"The difference between czarism and Leninism is the one between absolutism and totalitarianism. \u2014 Josef Joffe, New York Times , 19 Oct. 2017",
"With the collapse of czarism , this commitment to gradual reform and the development of parliamentary institutions seemed outdated. \u2014 Carolyn Harris, Smithsonian , 13 Apr. 2017"
