BIG BROTHERISM Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

Big Brotherism

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The Big Brother Instagram account also shared a video on Wednesday of houseguest Taylor Brown cleaning the communal showers.

— Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026
Salina EsTittties from RuPaul’s Drag Race) talks about being voted out of the Big Brother house unanimously.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 31 July 2026

Definition of Big Brother

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If anything, the film is more embarrassing than incendiary, and its unexamined message — that privileged, straight people can still fall in love under fascism — is, technically, true.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2026
Brogin, who said at the time that the law was akin to fascism, fought the city, unsuccessfully.

— Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026

Definition of fascism

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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

Definition of Nazism

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Extremists connected these claims to older ideas about government tyranny, social control and corrupt elites.

— Art Jipson, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
Indeed, by then, the hypnotic spell had been cast across all of Europe, including on those liberated from the drab tyrannies of actually existing socialism.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

Definition of tyranny

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Outside of dictatorships, modern central bankers generally don’t have to fear for their lives, but they are sometimes subjected to heavy criticism.

— John Cassidy, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
None of Argentina’s players had been born when the country’s military dictatorship invaded the Malvinas in 1982, holding the islands for 73 days before British forces recaptured them in a war that killed 649 Argentine and 255 British troops.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026

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