How to Use oligarchy in a Sentence

oligarchy

noun

• Their nation is an oligarchy.
• An oligarchy rules their nation.
• The corporation is ruled by oligarchy.
• The wealthy were a corrupt oligarchy that needed to be shattered.
  — Matt Pearce, latimes.com, 14 June 2017
• Want to imagine life if the public-health oligarchy had free rein?
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021
• The judges Kennedy has appointed in the South are designed to protect the oligarchy.
  — Fern Marja Eckman, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2020
• The most important component of this oligarchy is the Cuban regime.
  — Moisés Naím, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
• So much for a next generation of players ready to unseat the oligarchy.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 10 July 2019
• It’s the antithesis of Spotify and the rest of the music business oligarchy.
  — Sadie Dupuis, SPIN, 7 Feb. 2022
• Most countries in the region are no longer controlled by a narrow oligarchy, nor under the yanqui thumb.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• Before the Civil War, the court was a key ally to the slave-holding oligarchy in the South.
  — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• The maddening king of fantasy was deposed; the oligarchy of the writers’ room presided.
  — Namwali Serpell, New York Times, 6 June 2019
• This is the police force the Southern oligarchy has used and created to protect their interests.
  — Fern Marja Eckman, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2020
• So what does the Constitution have to say about economic oligarchy?
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• Hell, the Greeks knew that social inequality was the route through which democracy turns to oligarchy.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 May 2017
• Right, but this seems to assume that oligarchy and populism are sort of natural enemies.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2020
• Is this just the messy forward march of democracy, or evidence of a malign techno-oligarchy?
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
• The league that Goodell represents is a cesspool for corporate oligarchy and the patriotism of scoundrels.
  — Jack Hamilton, Slate Magazine, 3 Feb. 2017
• Unlike the evil oligarchy of ancient Athens, the A.I. oligopoly set out to do good.
  — Wendell Wallach, Fortune, 16 June 2022
• On the fringe of the left there are those who want to overthrow the racist, cisgendered, patriarchal neoliberal oligarchy.
  — David Brooks, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• As in Iran, the bite of sanctions has been felt primarily by the poor and unemployed, while the oligarchy has managed to keep itself in furs.
  — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 20 June 2017
• In others, the New World Order is not about race or religion but oligarchy.
  — Mike Giglio, The New Yorker, 28 July 2021
• For example, why is there a technology oligarchy in the US?
  — Steve Andriole, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• As a result, the U.S. is currently more an oligarchy than a democracy.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022
• This post-Soviet oligarchy also occurred in Ukraine, but the war is changing that.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
• He was convinced that Hamilton’s proposals were a stepping stone on the path to oligarchy and the destruction of self-government.
  — Jay Cost, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• Money from vast reserves of natural gas and oil flows to the oligarchy, who often funnel it into property in France.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• But his ownership of newspapers and other media leads to fears of incipient oligarchy.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• Anton and Yarvin treat this assertion as given and then proceed to talk through how this theocratic oligarchy might be overturned.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 28 July 2021
• Britain in particular is criminally culpable of enabling the Russian oligarchy over the past decade.
  — Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024