Big Brother

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Recent Examples on the Web Its accelerated path toward Europe has been spurred by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which shattered many Moldovans’ image of Russia as a benign big brother and created a determination in Brussels to prevent Moscow making further political inroads into formerly Communist states. Christian Edwards, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024 Who won part 1 of the final Head of Household competition on 'Big Brother'? Chelsie Baham won part one of the final HOH competition. David Wysong, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024 Who won Part 1 of HOH on 'Big Brother'? Chelsie Baham won Part 1 of the Final HOH. Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 13 Oct. 2024 The siblings might have had an eye out for their big brother George and father William, as the father and son attended the match together in Germany. Can't get enough of PEOPLE's Royals coverage? Janine Henni, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024 Luis Armando Albino was just 6 years old when he was lured away by a woman while playing at a park with his big brother Roger in West Oakland on Feb. 21, 1951. Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024 Who is Head of Household on 'Big Brother'? Chelsie Baham is HOH. David Wysong, The Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2024 On her Instagram stories, Moore shared a photo of Lou’s big brothers welcoming their little sister home with an entryway banner. Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024 Catch up on all the drama:Who won the Power of Veto on 'Big Brother'? Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brother
Noun
  • Smith writes that the idea of a Judeo-Christian tradition emerged in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s as a response to both homegrown and foreign antisemitism and fascism.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 27 Oct. 2024
  • In today’s newsletter, Susan B. Glasser on Trump and fascism.
    Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.
    Letters to the Editor, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Under the unconditional patronage of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov rules his republic as a totalitarian, and has done so since taking power in May 2004, after his father, then President Akhmad Kadyrov, was assassinated.
    Layla Taimienova, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2017
Noun
  • Over the next four years, its manpower and industrial might enabled the forces of democracy to end the threat of German Nazism in Europe and Japanese imperialism in the Pacific.
    Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Yet some of us in the audience, disgusted by the persistence of Nazism and anti-immigrant invective in the present, may well appreciate the force of McQueen’s rhetoric.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • This quest for a charismatic leader had always ended in tyranny, Hayek said.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Still, would Cuarón or his contemporaries have survived the creative tyranny of the Selznick-Goldwyn-Zanuck era?
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • A number of sports potentates will be making the Idaho scene, at a moment when tens of billions of dollars are changing hands in pursuit of ever-valuable rights.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 10 July 2024
  • By cracking the whip on local potentates, the party bolsters its already substantial public support and reinforces the power of central institutions.
    Dali Yang, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
Noun
  • The Poverty Stoplight Network is a new way to address poverty elimination, honed over four decades of work from Fundación Paraguaya which was founded in 1985 in Paraguay during a military dictatorship with the objective of ending political, social, and economic discrimination.
    Rhett Power, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Her robust defense of the dictatorship strikes many Argentines as exaggerated.
    Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Foreman, who wrote, directed and designed many of his own productions, is more of a collaborative autocrat.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
  • How does a roll call of modern autocrats, and wannabe autocrats, like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, India’s Narendra Modi, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro implement this modus operandi for the latest model of autocracy?
    Cecilia Menjívar, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.
    Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) The first Call of Duty game to venture beyond World War II into modern-day geopolitical situations and international intrigue with nukes, an anti-U.S. Middle Eastern warlord and an ultranationalist Russian terrorist involved.
    Carlie Procell, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024

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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.

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