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Recent Examples of Big Brother
He has been actively involved in BBBS for more than 15 years, twice serving as a Big Brother in the program.
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Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Mar. 2026
Other emerging San Francisco bands at that time include Jefferson Airplane (featuring Grace Slick), Big Brother & the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin), Country Joe and the Fish, and a young Mexican-American named Carlos Santana who kicked away his eponymous band just down the road in 1966.
—Mike Hanlon
march 22, New Atlas, 22 Mar. 2026
Think of it as a one-day Big Brother with jokes.
—Claire McNear, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2026
Hale was crowned the champion of Big Brother season 24 in 2022, winning eight out of nine votes from the jury.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Mar. 2026
The pact, which has been in the works for some time, will bring together the producers of series including The Traitors, Big Brother, Survivor, Peaky Blinders and Gogglebox as well as movies including Hamnet.
—Peter White, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2026
The claims against him date between 2006 and 2013, when Brand was at the height of his fame working on Big Brother’s Big Mouth, Kings of Comedy and Big Brother’s Celebrity Hijack.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026
On his first Father’s Day, the Celebrity Big Brother alum dropped a visual accompaniment to one of his 2005 tracks.
—Sarah Title, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
Parriman has applied to be on several reality shows over the years, including Survivor, Big Brother, American Idol and The Voice.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2026
Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Mar. 2026
Other emerging San Francisco bands at that time include Jefferson Airplane (featuring Grace Slick), Big Brother & the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin), Country Joe and the Fish, and a young Mexican-American named Carlos Santana who kicked away his eponymous band just down the road in 1966.
—Mike Hanlon
march 22, New Atlas, 22 Mar. 2026
Think of it as a one-day Big Brother with jokes.
—Claire McNear, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2026
Hale was crowned the champion of Big Brother season 24 in 2022, winning eight out of nine votes from the jury.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Mar. 2026
The pact, which has been in the works for some time, will bring together the producers of series including The Traitors, Big Brother, Survivor, Peaky Blinders and Gogglebox as well as movies including Hamnet.
—Peter White, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2026
The claims against him date between 2006 and 2013, when Brand was at the height of his fame working on Big Brother’s Big Mouth, Kings of Comedy and Big Brother’s Celebrity Hijack.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026
On his first Father’s Day, the Celebrity Big Brother alum dropped a visual accompaniment to one of his 2005 tracks.
—Sarah Title, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
Parriman has applied to be on several reality shows over the years, including Survivor, Big Brother, American Idol and The Voice.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2026
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
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Hungary had a very weak civil society after 70 years of totalitarian fascism and communism.—
John Shattuck,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2026
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This form evolved in the 20th century to address Marxism, fascism and class struggle, challenging traditional narratives through activism and experimental techniques.—
Jane M. Saks,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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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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Khomeini was a leader of opposition to the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, an authoritarian who wanted to modernize the country.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
10 Mar. 2026
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Khamenei, 87, who had been in power for more than three decades, was viewed by critics as a repressive authoritarian responsible for the mass murder of thousands of protesters and other human rights abuses.—
Julian Roberts-Grmela,
New York Daily News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Cutié, 56, knows about the tyranny many Cubans have lived under.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
14 Mar. 2026
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Was her exclusion from the political world not its own kind of tyranny?—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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Biden put this sentiment into action by working with Netanyahu despite serious moral and political failures in Gaza, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on NATO expansion, and with Gulf potentates on the region’s security architecture.—
James Jeffrey,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Nov. 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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Thousands marched through Buenos Aires on Tuesday to mark 50 years since the 1976 military coup that ushered in one of Latin America’s bloodiest dictatorships.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Unlike more cohesive dictatorships, Iran’s youth, middle class and ethnic minorities — Persians number less than 50% in a nation with seven major ethnic groups — are primed to rise once air power shatters the mullahs’ control.—
Chuck DeVore,
Twin Cities,
22 Mar. 2026
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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