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
• 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 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
• 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
• So much for a next generation of players ready to unseat the oligarchy.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 10 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• This post-Soviet oligarchy also occurred in Ukraine, but the war is changing that.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
• Of course, Maduro; his wife, Cilia Flores; and many of his relatives and associates are part of that oligarchy.
  — Moisés Naím, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
• The maddening king of fantasy was deposed; the oligarchy of the writers’ room presided.
  — Namwali Serpell, New York Times, 6 June 2019
• In 2018, Abrams is running against hate, despair and an oligarchy that has turned the White House into a kleptocracy.
  — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 17 Jan. 2018
• After all the movement, the Warriors and LeBron James no longer lead an attention oligarchy.
  — Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 22 July 2019
• We’ve been warned for decades that America is or is becoming an oligarchy.
  — Ezra Klein, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
• The challenge to resisting a new American oligarchy is not to convince the public that there is a problem, but to offer compelling solutions.
  — Lawrence Norden, TIME, 12 Feb. 2025