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  • noun Plural form of lord.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lord.

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Examples

  • Organized-crime lords from the Yakuza to the Mafia?

    FRANK W DUX 2010

  • Look at the National Guard at the Mexican Border got attacked by Mexican drug lords is my guess.

    Sound Politics: McDermott: Bring Back Baath Party 2007

  • On the other hand — the pirate lords from the four corners of the earth?

    POTC III. « Love | Peace | Ohana 2007

  • Although most of the food offerings, such as tamales nejos, made with masa cooked with ash, as well as beans, moles and pipians, are shared by members of the community, the ritual tamal made for the air and water lords is buried.

    Morelos: land of culinary contrasts 2005

  • Although most of the food offerings, such as tamales nejos, made with masa cooked with ash, as well as beans, moles and pipians, are shared by members of the community, the ritual tamal made for the air and water lords is buried.

    Morelos: land of culinary contrasts 2005

  • The biggest single threat to Ken Lay and the electricity lords is a private lawsuit filed last year under California's unique Civil Code provision 17200, the "Unfair Business Practices Act."

    Boing Boing: October 5, 2003 - October 11, 2003 Archives 2003

  • Mr. Sterling, on finding that certain lords who smiled deceitful at the Carlton Club, were absolutely inaccessible at the Foley Arms, suddenly discovered that your beautiful scenery was a great humbug, as you had only "to strip the soil a foot deep and it would be a vile black mass."

    New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

  • In Dyfed, when Powell had returned to his own land and castle, he called his lords together.

    Welsh Fairy Tales William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we?

    Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877

  • He robs the osprey of his fish, and the vulture of his carrion; in short, lords it over every creature weaker than himself.

    The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

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