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- noun Plural form of
overlord .
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Examples
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Does anyone know which of our construction company overlords is vacuuming us taxpayers 'wallets on this one?
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Your lack of trust in our new insect overlords is clearly a result of having read too much.
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Does anyone know which of our construction company overlords is vacuuming us taxpayers 'wallets on this one?
Paulson stadium scheme will still be a no-bid deal (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Yo – looks like my Fat Penguin overlords have installed a "Digg This" link next to the comments.
WHAT A MCWASTE 2007
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Webb … Allen … all will fall before the dolphin overlords!
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He began stepping out on the label, rhyming on the side over beats produced by Kush, and basking in the freedom of expressing himself without the ever - watching eye of label overlords who'd nitpick his words and take away their meaning.
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It wasn't the commercial hit the band's major-label overlords anticipated, but it was an artistic triumph.
Memphis Flyer 2008
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As soon as the Palestinians accept their Israeli overlords, that is peace.
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Waldo Jaquith - I, for one, welcome our new dolphin overlords.
Waldo Jaquith - I, for one, welcome our new dolphin overlords. 2006
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As such, he's a particularly extreme example of a different class of web entrepreneur, a class one might call the overlords of open source: leaders who leverage massive outpourings of unpaid labor to maximize the impact, not the profit, of the enterprise.
Wired Top Stories Matt Schwartz 2011
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