Big Brothers

plural of Big Brother

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Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Trump has made clear his disdain for NATO, his affection for Putin, gushes over autocrats, and withholds military support for Ukraine.
    Arthur House, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2026
  • Almost overnight, countries that had long outsourced their energy security to autocrats found their supplies cut, and their economies shaken.
    Jennifer Granholm, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Not your grandma’s authoritarians Today’s authoritarian rulers realize that civil society has the potential to support democracy and pry loose their grip on power.
    Christopher Justin Einolf, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • An America where justice brings down oppressors and lifts up the ordinary.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • And did the advocates of this collective pedagogy imagine their children rising to heights of power, only to view the darker nations of the world through the same violent lens as their oppressors?
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
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“Big Brothers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brothers. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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