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.
• So this is pretty much the jewel in the crown of the global oligarchies.
  — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
• Those actions led to the rise of a new Russian oligarchy.
  — Ron Insana, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2024
• 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
• There's an oligarchy of rich people who are close to the guy who's going to sit here.
  — NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025
• The judges Kennedy has appointed in the South are designed to protect the oligarchy.
  — Fern Marja Eckman, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2020
• Want to imagine life if the public-health oligarchy had free rein?
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021
• Sanders has been warning about the growing threat of an oligarchy for years.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
• But that gets in the way of making America a full-on oligarchy.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 24 Dec. 2017
• The Russian term for their oligarchy is semibankirshchina—the reign of the seven bankers.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
• The wealthy were a corrupt oligarchy that needed to be shattered.
  — Matt Pearce, latimes.com, 14 June 2017
• But by 2018, even the English were growing uneasy about the oligarchy.
  — Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2022
• Unlike the evil oligarchy of ancient Athens, the A.I. oligopoly set out to do good.
  — Wendell Wallach, Fortune, 16 June 2022
• The oligarchy of the Trumps and the Kushners, however, is something else.
  — Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2020
• The most important component of this oligarchy is the Cuban regime.
  — Moisés Naím, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
• It’s the antithesis of Spotify and the rest of the music business oligarchy.
  — Sadie Dupuis, SPIN, 7 Feb. 2022
• The root of it was the old oligarchy, mostly Republican.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• In others, the New World Order is not about race or religion but oligarchy.
  — Mike Giglio, The New Yorker, 28 July 2021
• These are to monopolies as oligarchies — rule by a few — are to monarchies.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2025
• These are to monopolies as oligarchies — rule by a few — are to monarchies.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2025
• So much for a next generation of players ready to unseat the oligarchy.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 10 July 2019
• To be sure, that would be better than Trump’s malignant oligarchy.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2020
• Most countries in the region are no longer controlled by a narrow oligarchy, nor under the yanqui thumb.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• As a result, the U.S. is currently more an oligarchy than a democracy.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022
• To explain Trump’s support as a revolt against oligarchy, Lind has to accomplish a few things.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 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
• Hell, the Greeks knew that social inequality was the route through which democracy turns to oligarchy.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 May 2017
• Even in a new age of oligarchy where the rich are openly proclaiming themselves above the needs and laws of normal people, and even with obvious parallels to the Sacklers, the Leopolds manage to be generically monstrous instead of resonantly so.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025