Big Brothers

noun

plural of Big Brother
as in paramounts

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  1. potentates
  2. autocrats
  3. authoritarians
  4. oppressors
Noun
  • With 775 rooms, the palace also provides office space for the royal bureaucracy and hosts lavish state dinners for visiting presidents and potentates.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • With 775 rooms, the palace also provides office space for the royal bureaucracy and hosts lavish state dinners for visiting presidents and potentates.
    — Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026
Definition of potentates
Noun
  • Typically reserved for autocrats and crime bosses, sanctions can be devastating.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
  • Conquerors and autocrats may win the immediate battle by bullying their subjects into submission, but their empires inevitably crumble the moment their iron grip falters.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 24 June 2026
Definition of autocrats
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
Definition of authoritarians
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
Definition of oppressors
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