How to Use oligarchic in a Sentence

oligarchic

adjective

• This is a new kind of oligarchic threat that will need to be taken seriously in its own right.
  — BÁlint Madlovics, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2025
• The key issue here is not just to get rid of Poroshenko, but to pass from oligarchic rule to people’s power.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2019
• These are key steps on the road toward even more concentrated oligarchic control.
  — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 29 Jan. 2025
• Many of the young activists are driven by a sense that city’s oligarchic political system is rigged against them.
  — Time, 20 July 2019
• The Quail is an exercise in elite excess for the oligarchic and overrestored—cars and humans alike.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2018
• Vance will manage the final transition to an oligarchic form of government.
  — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 29 Jan. 2025
• Because of this oligarchic pact between big industry and the political elites.
  — Nicholas Zimmerman, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Dec. 2017
• The only group that would lose from reforms are the property tycoons and other elites who have benefited from an oligarchic system.
  — Time, 2 July 2019
• Along the way, Western lawyers, accountants, real estate agents, and consultants grew fat on the inflow of oligarchic wealth.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 15 Feb. 2022
• The risk is not of an ideological reshaping of the state, but of weak institutions failing to restrain oligarchic rule.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• Almost all the land was in the hands of oligarchic families or in the hands of mosques, the mosque endowments, and at the emancipation of women, giving women the right to vote.
  — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
• Putin would rather deal with a pro-Western oligarchic president in Kiev who does little to improve people’s lives, Frolov said.
  — Will Englund, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2019
• Some in Ukraine also fear the oligarchs will be replaced by a new oligarchic system emerging from the wartime concentration of power around the government.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• Russian overlords could stymie the Ukrainian president’s efforts to expose oligarchic networks.
  — Maria Popova, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2022
• Perhaps because conservatives then, as now, knew on which side of the divide the institutional and oligarchic power landed.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• The country’s corruption and oligarchic system are decades-long issues that the current pro-EU government has struggled to curb.
  — Cristian Gherasim, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• From the earliest days of the Republic, those movements insisted that the greatest threat to democracy is not the tyranny of one man but the oligarchic rule of wealth.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
• The transition to capitalism bankrupted millions and produced a handful of billionaires—a new oligarchic class, built on the back of the old power structure.
  — Jessica Loudis, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017
• The Putin regime is imperialist and oligarchic, dependent for its existence on propaganda that claims that all the world is ever such.
  — Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
• Orbán’s autocratic rule, his takeover of the press and courts, and the corruption of his family and oligarchic friends became intolerable.
  — Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
• One was the energy broker Firtash, the embodiment of the oligarchic system that had proved so beneficial to Putin.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• The oligarchic sharks are circling the water, and now their head shark is ensconced at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• This would achieve their goal of re-channeling government benefits from the working poor, who require safety net assistance, to oligarchic holders of dynastic wealth.
  — David Dayen, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• The cracks are faint and fall short of suggesting any groundswell of oligarchic opposition to Putin, according to experts and Western officials.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2022
• In Russia’s latest oligarchic era, the Napoleon is typically a tower of thin layers of pastry, at least eight tiers high and sometimes more than 20.
  — Margarita Gokun Silver, Saveur, 31 Dec. 2019
• America may be dominated by oligarchic elites, but arguably the biggest threat to our economic and political system might be located further down the food chain.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 1 Apr. 2022
• Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, American critics have rightly described Russia as an oligarchic state.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
• The finance minister, mocked by the opposition as a consigliere for oligarchic power, applauded the leader for pushing through economic reforms that mostly line the pockets of the oligarchs.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2017
• Newman understands how kleptocracy and oligarchic excess — both in Russia and in the West — repel and attract us in 2022.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2022
• The majority of those in the Third World who embraced communism saw it, more than anything, as a means of easing the poverty and inequality wrought by oligarchic capitalism.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 5 June 2020