BIG BROTHERISM Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

Big Brotherism

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Check out Big Brother host Julie Chen Moonves having to get tough with the houseguests on live TV!

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2026
By a vote of 2 to 1, Yash was the twelfth houseguest evicted from Big Brother Season 28 and became the fourth jury member.

— Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026

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President Roosevelt also led the United States through the Second World War, mobilizing the Nation after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and serving as Commander-in-Chief throughout the Allied effort to defeat Nazism and fascism.

— New York Times, New York Times, 11 June 2026
The writing includes numerical codes and abbreviations that reference Nazism, as well as messages about past mass shootings.

— Brynn Gingras, CNN Money, 19 May 2026

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And Ric Salinas, who plays Chachalacani, humorously obliges, bringing his Culture Clash vaudeville skills to the role of the sentry who’s caught between the rock of Klion’s tyranny and his fellow feeling for Antíkona’s sympathetic cause.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Focus Features has the Andrew Garfield period movie The Uprising from Paul Greengrass which is based on the legend of Robin Hood in his crusade against King Richard II’s tyranny.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026

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In those years many Latin American countries had repressive governments, military coups, dictatorships, and undeclared wars against the poor and the indigenous population, which were backed by the CIA in the context of the Cold War.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
In Peru under dictatorship, two of three long-time lovers marry for appearances but flee from their conservative rural community for the capital after their secret is exposed by the third.

— Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026

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