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Recent Examples of Big Brother
Who won Head of Household on 'Big Brother'?
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David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
This post contains spoilers for Big Brother 27.
—Carson Blackwelder, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
The original Big Brother, however, is a game in which players are voted out by their peers.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Every year, a new batch of reality show contestants enter the Big Brother house hoping for the ultimate glory.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Big Brother legend Janelle Pierzina has been vocal about Rachel’s eviction and has not held back her opinions.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
Fan outrage has caught fire in the Big Brother community, and a lot of that heat is coming directly from former houseguests.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 9 Sep. 2025
The Big Brother star, who first appeared on season 14 and later won season 22 of the reality TV series, is expecting his first baby with his wife, Cristie Laratta, sharing the news on Instagram.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Who won Head of Household on 'Big Brother'? Keanu Soto is this week’s HOH.
—David Wysong, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2025
David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
This post contains spoilers for Big Brother 27.
—Carson Blackwelder, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
The original Big Brother, however, is a game in which players are voted out by their peers.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Every year, a new batch of reality show contestants enter the Big Brother house hoping for the ultimate glory.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Big Brother legend Janelle Pierzina has been vocal about Rachel’s eviction and has not held back her opinions.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
Fan outrage has caught fire in the Big Brother community, and a lot of that heat is coming directly from former houseguests.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 9 Sep. 2025
The Big Brother star, who first appeared on season 14 and later won season 22 of the reality TV series, is expecting his first baby with his wife, Cristie Laratta, sharing the news on Instagram.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Who won Head of Household on 'Big Brother'? Keanu Soto is this week’s HOH.
—David Wysong, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 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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At a time when contentious words dominate our conversations—think insurrection and fascism and fake news and woke—the need for dictionaries to chronicle and explain language, and serve as its watchdog, has never been greater.—
Stefan Fatsis,
The Atlantic,
13 Sep. 2025
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The game has been viewed as a tongue in cheek critique of military dictatorships, with references to fascism and colonialism.—
Dan Gooding
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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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
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
Noun
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Trump isn't responsible for such long-term trends as Beijing's determination to rival the United States in global influence, or Putin's evolution to an entrenched authoritarian with expansionist ambitions.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Just days after the sadness at Annunciation, the feeling outside the church of doing something was palpable, not the endless tyranny of hoping somebody else does something.—
Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
6 Sep. 2025
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Due process is what stands between individuals and tyranny.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
5 Sep. 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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With the pandemic, the year-round population of a once-seasonal resort town swelled with Manhattan refugees, those in the Trump orbit, and tech and finance potentates, many of them serious collectors like Ken Griffin and Steve Ross.—
Ben Widdicombe,
Vulture,
12 May 2025
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No, a dictatorship is not the same as democracy.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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First, the Chavist regime of Nicolás Maduro is not operating like a real state or even a classic dictatorship.—
Kristina Foltz,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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