lord it over
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One team meet-up is staged, randomly, at an auto junkyard; it’s as though these serial sedan-killers want to lord it over the corpses.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
And USC continues to lord it over a big chunk of the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
We're used to seeing her sort of lord it over her environment.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2022
First, inherited from “Toy Story 2,” is the notion of toys becoming vintage items, and second is the discomforting presence of über-toys, who lord it over the meeker types and forbid them basic liberties.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 21, 2019
“Well, you’re right. It all came out okay. But I still don’t like the way he tries to lord it over me.”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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