as in dictatorship
a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power
a popular uprising replaced that nation's tyranny with freedom and democracy
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Recent Examples of tyranny
As nations started plunging into chaos and tyranny, global health authorities started signaling how seriously ...
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Jack Butler, National Review, 12 Mar. 2025
Europe is now a dictatorship, Romania is under tyranny!
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
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
But that doesn’t justify your silence in the face of Trump’s tyranny, either.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2025
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Jack Butler, National Review, 12 Mar. 2025
Europe is now a dictatorship, Romania is under tyranny!
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
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
But that doesn’t justify your silence in the face of Trump’s tyranny, either.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tyranny
Noun
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The oligarchs in Hungary and Russia support the dictatorship with their monetary gains in return for being allowed to remain billionaires.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
4 Apr. 2025
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The biographical drama is inspired by the lives of Brazilian activist Eunice Paiva and her politician husband Rubens, who was murdered for his dissidence toward the military dictatorship of 1970s Brazil.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
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Leading scholars, including historians of fascism, keep making alarming comparisons between WW2 and the present.—
Chris Doyle,
Hartford Courant,
2 Apr. 2025
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Stanley is an expert on fascism and the author of several books on the topic, including Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.—
Destinee Adams,
NPR,
1 Apr. 2025
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The necessity of power sharing also meant that Congress could provide a check against despotism even if the same party held the Presidency and a majority in both houses.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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And there are worse messages to be putting out into the world via family films right now than celebrating the virtues of kindness and fairness over cruel despotism.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Mar. 2025
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The Russian and Chinese leaders have a common vision of global politics, anchored by their mutual commitment to autocracy and shared animosity toward the United States.—
MICHAEL McFAUL,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Apr. 2025
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The authors point to Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore as an early adopter of informational autocracy.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
2 Apr. 2025
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Forgotten Anne, for example, makes arguments against authoritarianism and totalitarianism.—
G Kirilloff,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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The task of our generation is to defeat the totalitarianisms of the 21st century.—
Claude Malhuret,
The Atlantic,
8 Mar. 2025
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Public discourse must resist the seduction of emotional absolutism, demanding instead that moral arguments be grounded in fact and logic.—
Kevin Waldman,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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In our skies as in our social lives, incremental change, like ring rain, seems to work slowly, while acts of frightening absolutism seem to happen overnight.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2024
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“Tyranny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tyranny. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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