strongman
noun
strong·man
ˈstrȯŋ-ˌman 
: one who leads or controls by force of will and character or by military methods
Examples of strongman in a Sentence
a Latin-American strongman who basically treated his nation's coffers as his personal bank account
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In 1989, Sconce was sentenced to five years in prison for mutilating corpses, holding mass cremations at $55 a body and hiring strongmen to assault three rival morticians.
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Angel Saunders, People.com, 19 May 2025
Trump during his four-day tour embraced strongmen in ways new even for him.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 May 2025
The Mad Max: Fury Road and Nosferatu star, 35, initially went out for the leading role of Clark Kent/Kal-El, the Kryptonian strongman who crash lands on Earth as a babe and struggles ever since to reconcile his upbringing in small-town Kansas with his otherworldly heritage.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 15 May 2025
The Trump administration’s ultimatums seem mostly aimed at Ukraine, even though Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has made no major concessions so far and snubbed Trump’s demands for a ceasefire to allow peace talks to gain traction.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2025
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“Strongman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strongman. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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