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Recent Examples of Big Brother
Up next, the season 38 cast will consist of all-star Big Brother alums.
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Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Morgan Pope Vince Panaro Ashley Hollis Who got evicted from Big Brother last night?
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 26 Sep. 2025
What time is the 'Big Brother 27' season finale?
—David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2025
Each week, Big Brother host Julie Chen Moonves has been weighing in on the latest events inside the house exclusively with Entertainment Weekly.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025
When is the next 'Big Brother' episode?
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
So far, viewers have watched more than 8B minutes of Big Brother this summer between full episodes and live feeds on CBS, Paramount+ and Pluto TV.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Merlot climbs on top of her big brother, Charlie, and curls herself up.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Sep. 2025
In short, The Paper doesn’t quite escape the shadow of its big brother, but that’s just fine with us.
—Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Morgan Pope Vince Panaro Ashley Hollis Who got evicted from Big Brother last night?
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 26 Sep. 2025
What time is the 'Big Brother 27' season finale?
—David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2025
Each week, Big Brother host Julie Chen Moonves has been weighing in on the latest events inside the house exclusively with Entertainment Weekly.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Sep. 2025
When is the next 'Big Brother' episode?
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
So far, viewers have watched more than 8B minutes of Big Brother this summer between full episodes and live feeds on CBS, Paramount+ and Pluto TV.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Merlot climbs on top of her big brother, Charlie, and curls herself up.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Sep. 2025
In short, The Paper doesn’t quite escape the shadow of its big brother, but that’s just fine with us.
—Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brother
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Weaponizing social media and other U.S. businesses to do what the Constitution would not allow government to do is Big Brotherism.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
31 Mar. 2021
Noun
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Generally, Antifa describes those in opposition to fascism and far-right neo-Nazi ideologies, tracing their roots to 20th-century resistance movements in Europe.—
Richard Hall,
Time,
27 Sep. 2025
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At the same time, such a transition as implied by the current crisis necessitates and implies a coming organizational shift in society, but that could either result in a hideous fascism or in something genuinely utopian.—
Ed Simon
September 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But, ten years later, his embrace of near-totalitarian control bears the deep imprint of his most personal beliefs about force, weakness, faith, and order.—
Evan Osnos,
The New Yorker,
23 Oct. 2022
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But that would not address the fundamental goal of the protests: to end the totalitarian stranglehold that has subjected the Cubans to an unbearable serfdom.—
Néstor T. Carbonell,
National Review,
16 July 2021
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Still, some historians object to reincarnating a place so central to Nazism as a cultural venue for pleasure.—
Shira Li Bartov,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
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Threat of communism, along with awful economic misery, spawned fascism and Nazism, and World War II.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
22 July 2025
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That is why censorship is the authoritarian's dream.—
Robert Birsel
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Trump isn't responsible for such long-term trends as Beijing's determination to rival the United States in global influence, or Putin's evolution to an entrenched authoritarian with expansionist ambitions.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Ward’s comments underscore that the most incredible and enduring mythology of King Henry’s reign remains that of his putative tyranny.—
Marlene L. Daut
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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The answer is not government tyranny, but the renewal of civil society.—
Carolyn McKinney,
Boston Herald,
22 Sep. 2025
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Why don’t all the rich potentates, sheiks, oligarchs and MAGA dictators meet and fix it?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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With the pandemic, the year-round population of a once-seasonal resort town swelled with Manhattan refugees, those in the Trump orbit, and tech and finance potentates, many of them serious collectors like Ken Griffin and Steve Ross.—
Ben Widdicombe,
Vulture,
12 May 2025
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Co-host Ana Navarro compared the government pressure to tactics used by dictatorships to silence the press and the public.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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Shaheen called this a historic opportunity for Syria after years of dictatorship under the Assad regime.—
Michele Kelemen,
NPR,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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