as in tyranny
a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power
a revolution that only ended up replacing one dictatorship with another
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Recent Examples of dictatorship
In a dictatorship, money flows upward, enriching the rich and powerful.
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Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2025
Russia is our enemy and will be for at least as long as Putin's dictatorship endures (and the Russian people continue to succumb to nostalgia for great power status and empire).
—Bradley Gitz, arkansasonline.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Founded in 1998, the station is owned by journalist Marcus Garcia, another renowned Haitian journalist and columnist who led the struggle for press freedoms against the Duvalier dictatorship in the 1980s.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
The Oscar-winning Brazilian biopic about lawyer and activist Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) confronting her country’s dark legacy of dictatorship, was released commercially last month.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025
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Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2025
Russia is our enemy and will be for at least as long as Putin's dictatorship endures (and the Russian people continue to succumb to nostalgia for great power status and empire).
—Bradley Gitz, arkansasonline.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Founded in 1998, the station is owned by journalist Marcus Garcia, another renowned Haitian journalist and columnist who led the struggle for press freedoms against the Duvalier dictatorship in the 1980s.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
The Oscar-winning Brazilian biopic about lawyer and activist Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) confronting her country’s dark legacy of dictatorship, was released commercially last month.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dictatorship
Noun
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Judicial review is an indispensable part of the checks and balances embedded in the Constitution as a protection against tyranny.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
20 Mar. 2025
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But that doesn’t justify your silence in the face of Trump’s tyranny, either.—
Robert B. Reich,
Hartford Courant,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Cattaneo and Pope manage to balance the tone of a dramatic historical depiction of fascism with a charming animal story and their secret weapon is Coogan.—
Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Don’t miss the upstairs museum, which displays priceless menorahs, prayer books, shofars and other historic artifacts, with windows that overlook the grave markers in the courtyard, a remnant of the old Budapest ghetto, where more than 2,000 victims of fascism were buried.—
Evan Rail,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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There are good reasons to believe that a permanent slide into autocracy is harder in the U.S. than in those countries.—
Jennifer Victor,
The Conversation,
26 Mar. 2025
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Investors are already fleeing as the county grows more authoritarian, and a slide into full autocracy will hardly bring them back.—
Gonul Tol,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Dictatorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dictatorship. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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