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Recent Examples of Big Brother
Below Deck alum Kate Chastain, Big Brother’s Paul Abrahamian, Selling Sunset’s Christine Quinn, and RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Plane Jane are also part of the cast.
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Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2026
Parriman has applied to be on several reality shows over the years, including Survivor, Big Brother, American Idol and The Voice.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2026
By episode five, Michael had moved on from suspecting Yam Yam to suspecting Colton, who was a ringleader in the previous episode’s banishment of Big Brother fan favorite Tiffany Mitchell.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
Well, there's a Big Brother Traitor.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Jan. 2026
Hosted by Alan Cumming, the fourth season of the hit reality competition show unites 23 stars from iconic franchises like Survivor and Big Brother to Real Housewives, RuPaul's Drag Race and more.
—Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Their daughter, Romy, called Williams her big brother.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 5 Jan. 2026
Lee appeared on Season 27 of Big Brother, and despite not winning, became one of that season’s main protagonists.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2025
Originally from Jacksonville, Florida but based in Atlanta, Lee was a contestant on the most recent, 27th season of Big Brother, which aired this summer.
—Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 Jan. 2026
Parriman has applied to be on several reality shows over the years, including Survivor, Big Brother, American Idol and The Voice.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2026
By episode five, Michael had moved on from suspecting Yam Yam to suspecting Colton, who was a ringleader in the previous episode’s banishment of Big Brother fan favorite Tiffany Mitchell.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
Well, there's a Big Brother Traitor.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Jan. 2026
Hosted by Alan Cumming, the fourth season of the hit reality competition show unites 23 stars from iconic franchises like Survivor and Big Brother to Real Housewives, RuPaul's Drag Race and more.
—Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Their daughter, Romy, called Williams her big brother.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 5 Jan. 2026
Lee appeared on Season 27 of Big Brother, and despite not winning, became one of that season’s main protagonists.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2025
Originally from Jacksonville, Florida but based in Atlanta, Lee was a contestant on the most recent, 27th season of Big Brother, which aired this summer.
—Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brother
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Weaponizing social media and other U.S. businesses to do what the Constitution would not allow government to do is Big Brotherism.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
31 Mar. 2021
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With football, the psychology of fascism works.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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Sean Penn has the showiest performance, embodying all that is ridiculous about fascism, while his co-star Benicio del Toro makes an equally indelible impression embodying the quiet dignity of resistance.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
21 Jan. 2026
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But, ten years later, his embrace of near-totalitarian control bears the deep imprint of his most personal beliefs about force, weakness, faith, and order.—
Evan Osnos,
The New Yorker,
23 Oct. 2022
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But that would not address the fundamental goal of the protests: to end the totalitarian stranglehold that has subjected the Cubans to an unbearable serfdom.—
Néstor T. Carbonell,
National Review,
16 July 2021
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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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Maduro, an authoritarian, has led Venezuela since 2013, succeeding an ideological ally, Hugo Chávez, who had been in office since 1999.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
3 Jan. 2026
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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
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History does not record many cases in which a power-mad leader careening toward tyranny suddenly regained his senses and became more moderate.—
David Brooks,
Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2026
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Washington was a slaveholder and had fought a revolution to overthrow British tyranny.—
John Garrison Marks,
Time,
23 Jan. 2026
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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
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Why don’t all the rich potentates, sheiks, oligarchs and MAGA dictators meet and fix it?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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If all goes to hell and America devolves into a rank dictatorship, beware the bootlicker.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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Edner migrated from Haiti in the late 1960s to escape the Duvalier dictatorship and build a better life for his four daughters and three sons.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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