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A coup d'état ( (listen); French for 'stroke of state'; plural coups d'état (same pronunciation)), also known as a coup or an overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, military, or a dictator. Many scholars consider a coup successful when the usurpers seize and hold power for at least seven days.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Coups in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Coups in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of Coups in a Sentence
It's time for all of these, you know, D.C. games to end, i mean all these palace coups or whatever the hell is going on around here has to end, and we have to get down to business of governing.
Former CIA Director James Woolsey:
As far as loyalty is concerned, we're senior government officials — our loyalty ought to be to the Constitution. We're not in medieval England, people aren't trying to stage coups and so forth.
The only way to eliminate coups is to revive the founding values of the Republic. These values that make our unity should be spoken out loud at Yenikapi.
Tomorrow, the first of May, we will have a large, millions-strong march of the working class, we have been confronting different types of aggression and attempted coups never before seen in our history.
Nobody listened to us. It is now clear that those who accused us (in the Sledgehammer and Ergenekon trials) of plotting coups were the real plotters.
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