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Recent Examples of Big Brotherism
Weaponizing social media and other U.S. businesses to do what the Constitution would not allow government to do is Big Brotherism.
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WSJ, 31 Mar. 2021
WSJ, 31 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brotherism
Noun
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Did playing any of the other games like Big Brother, The Traitors, or Snake in the Grass prepare you for this return in any way?—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Feb. 2026
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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
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From ancient sources philosophers and poets, democrats and demagogues, found justification for everything from anarchy to fascism, and there are reasons for both justifications.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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That is really thuggish fascism.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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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Williams’s novel is concerned with time’s tyranny.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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Bashar al-Assad, who oversaw the torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of his fellow Syrians during a quarter century in power, may have achieved something new in the annals of tyranny.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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And perhaps most important, by empowering Congress, not the president, to remedy deficient state electoral schemes, the Constitution prevents presidents from rewriting the election code by executive fiat and thus provides an additional safeguard against military dictatorship.—
Jeffrey Rosen,
The Atlantic,
16 Feb. 2026
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In this country, unlike in dictatorships, people expect to be able to identify law enforcement officers by sight and by badge number.—
William Robiner,
Twin Cities,
15 Feb. 2026
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“Big Brotherism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brotherism. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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