engineer a coup

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To carefully and cleverly plan and arrange a coup.

coupVERB + NOUN (violent change of government)

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Examples (10)

  • A group of generals tried to engineer a coup against the dictator.
  • The ambitious executive was accused of trying to engineer a boardroom coup to oust the CEO.
  • They are secretly meeting to engineer a coup and install a new leader.
  • A military coup was successfully engineered by a shadowy cabal of officers.
  • He cleverly engineered a coup that removed his rivals from power without any bloodshed.
  • Historians still debate who truly engineered the coup that led to the fall of the republic.
  • Is it possible for a foreign power to engineer a coup in another country?
  • The intelligence agency believed that the rebels would attempt to engineer a coup within the next six months.
  • Engineering a coup requires meticulous planning, absolute secrecy, and loyal followers.
  • If they had more support, they might have been able to engineer a successful coup.