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Bolton responded that "I disagree with that. As somebody who has helped plan coups d'état, not here, but, you know, other places, it takes a lot of work. And that's not what he did."

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2022

Among them are Burkina Faso and Mali, which both face fast-growing insurgencies and have endured a combined three coups d'état since 2020.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2022

For the Honduran adaptation, Ochoa had plenty of material to draw from: three coups d’état and military dictatorships since 1963, the most recent in 2009.

From New York Times • May 11, 2021

He added: “Countries can withstand coups d’état, wars and conflict, even leaving the EU, but no country can withstand the loss of its soil and fertility.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2019

As long as the marshal was at the Elysee, foreign governments were not afraid of coups d'état or revolutions.

From My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King