Mugabe

[ moo-gah-bee, -bey ]

noun

Robert (Gabriel), 1924–2019, Zimbabwean political leader: prime minister 1980–87; president 1987–2017.

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How to use Mugabe in a sentence

Mugabe, now 90, has remained in power ever since using increasingly tyrannical measures to maintain his regime.
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It may come as a surprise then that Scott and, particularly Sata, have refused to condemn Mugabe.
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Remember how the U.S. liked Robert Mugabe and Charles Taylor in the early going?
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Unsurprisingly, the thuggish Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was among the first, along with then-apartheid South Africa.
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British Dictionary definitions for Mugabe

Mugabe

/ (mʊˈɡɑːbɪ) /

noun

Robert. born 1925, Zimbabwean politician; leader of one wing of the Patriotic Front against the government of Ian Smith of Rhodesia, and of the Zanu party; prime minister (1980–87); president from 1987

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