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Recent Examples of dictatorship Were Cuba to throw off the yoke of dictatorship, some Cuban Americans would return to the island — or go there for the first time. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 Mar. 2025 The film, which is based on the memoir of the novelist and screenwriter Marcelo Rubens Paiva, follows a Brazilian middle-class family as its members grapple with the aftermath of the military dictatorship that disappeared the father in the seventies. Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025 Ensuring transparency and public trust will be essential in preventing a relapse into dictatorship. Patrick Vinck, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2025 That is quite an achievement for a film which is certainly not a popcorn movie, recording the real-life story of Eunice Pavia and her reinvention of herself and rebuilding of her family after her husband, Rubens Pavia, an opponent of Brazil’s military dictatorship, disappeared after arrest in 1971. John Hopewell, Variety, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dictatorship
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Noun
  • In a functioning American democracy, the separation of powers serves as a vital safeguard against tyranny.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
  • America was forged in the blood and fire of rejecting tyranny; its institutions were meticulously formed around the principle that we would never be ruled by a king.
    Maureen Dowd, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Considering how many feel the show speaks to the rise in fascism currently taking place throughout the world, many believe the show has become adept at channeling real-world conflicts into a sci-fi allegory, but Gilroy doesn’t view his work as capturing the moment.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Our parents defeated fascism and communism at the cost of great sacrifice.
    Claude Malhuret, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That game-changing support almost certainly won’t come from the United States, which under President Donald Trump is rapidly aligning itself with Russia and other autocracies.
    David Axe, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Some are pushing back against the Trump administration’s efforts to gut federal programs and fears about an autocracy in America.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025

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“Dictatorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dictatorship. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.

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