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Recent Examples of Big Brother
Season 12 also marks the introduction of the best Big Brother addition ever with the Zingbot, a sassy wisecracking robot who shows up for the sole purpose of roasting the contestants.
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
This marks a return for reality competition series Big Brother in Canada.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 4 June 2026
Ethan’s big brother, Jackson, was the first overall pick out of Stillwater High in the 2022 draft by the Orioles.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
This season, Survivor was interchangeable with Big Brother.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026
Siwa and Hughes met while on season 24 of Celebrity Big Brother UK in April 2025.
—Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
Tiafoe is something of a big brother to Baptiste, often attending her matches.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 27 May 2026
Johnson City Johnson City, Tennessee, is the big brother of Jonesborough and the best Tennessee getaway for mountain bikers, with miles of trails at Tannery Knobs.
—Korrin Bishop, Southern Living, 24 May 2026
Other celebrities who have been made into holograms by Proto Hologram include Big Brother host Julie Chen Moonves, Elton John, Olivia Rodrigo, William Shatner and Kenan Thompson.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
This marks a return for reality competition series Big Brother in Canada.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 4 June 2026
Ethan’s big brother, Jackson, was the first overall pick out of Stillwater High in the 2022 draft by the Orioles.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
This season, Survivor was interchangeable with Big Brother.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026
Siwa and Hughes met while on season 24 of Celebrity Big Brother UK in April 2025.
—Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
Tiafoe is something of a big brother to Baptiste, often attending her matches.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 27 May 2026
Johnson City Johnson City, Tennessee, is the big brother of Jonesborough and the best Tennessee getaway for mountain bikers, with miles of trails at Tannery Knobs.
—Korrin Bishop, Southern Living, 24 May 2026
Other celebrities who have been made into holograms by Proto Hologram include Big Brother host Julie Chen Moonves, Elton John, Olivia Rodrigo, William Shatner and Kenan Thompson.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
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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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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While India’s media landscape has largely retreated in the face of the Hindu right’s fascism, Kandasamy is one of the few consistently at the barricades.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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Talking to Deadline ahead of the screening, Loach says the conflict still resonates with the Left to this day as the first international fight against fascism.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
19 May 2026
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Yet this year so far has been a dicey one for the Russian authoritarian.—
Daniel DePetris,
Mercury News,
23 May 2026
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Yet this year so far has been a dicey one for the Russian authoritarian.—
Daniel DePetris,
Twin Cities,
15 May 2026
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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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The game is a playground for Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern potentates, and Latin American strongmen—his people.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
7 Apr. 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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One requirement of self-governance is the relentless pursuit of truth, which necessarily involves questioning people in positions of power in order to prevent tyranny.—
Adrienne LaFrance,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
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Suddenly, guardrails are not tyranny but common sense.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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In 1978, my father, Ebrahim Yazdi, supported the revolution and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, precisely because Khomeini promised not to become an autocrat.—
Letters to the Editor,
Washington Post,
2 June 2026
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Perhaps the most radical element of republicanism was that the nation’s sovereignty would be held by its citizenry rather than by a monarch or an autocrat.—
Tyler Green,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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