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Recent Examples of Big Brother
Entertainment Weekly can exclusively report that the former Big Brother winner, who came back to compete this summer on season 27 of the competition franchise, will also be making a triumphant return to her other TV home away from home!
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
Who won part 3 of the final Head of Household competition on 'Big Brother'?
—David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 29 Sep. 2025
This article contains details of the latest Big Brother UK Season 22 episode, which aired on Monday, September 29.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
How much do 'Big Brother' winners get after taxes?
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Merlot climbs on top of her big brother, Charlie, and curls herself up.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Sep. 2025
In short, The Paper doesn’t quite escape the shadow of its big brother, but that’s just fine with us.
—Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
At the games, Mia can be seen supporting her quarterback big brother beside their mother Randi and brother Jackson.
—Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
Tom Holland took to Instagram to congratulate his younger brother, Sam Holland, on his new cookbook
Sam also gave Tom a special, subtle shout-out on the cover of the book
Tom previously shared that he's made several recipes from the book for his fiancée, Zendaya
Tom Holland is a proud big brother.
—Rachel McRady, People.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
Who won part 3 of the final Head of Household competition on 'Big Brother'?
—David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 29 Sep. 2025
This article contains details of the latest Big Brother UK Season 22 episode, which aired on Monday, September 29.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
How much do 'Big Brother' winners get after taxes?
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Merlot climbs on top of her big brother, Charlie, and curls herself up.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Sep. 2025
In short, The Paper doesn’t quite escape the shadow of its big brother, but that’s just fine with us.
—Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
At the games, Mia can be seen supporting her quarterback big brother beside their mother Randi and brother Jackson.
—Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
Tom Holland took to Instagram to congratulate his younger brother, Sam Holland, on his new cookbook
Sam also gave Tom a special, subtle shout-out on the cover of the book
Tom previously shared that he's made several recipes from the book for his fiancée, Zendaya
Tom Holland is a proud big brother.
—Rachel McRady, People.com, 29 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
Noun
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No more communism, or fascism; no more theocracy, or monarchies.—
Richard Stengel,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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This is the thing about fascism, right?—
Helen Molesworth,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 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
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That is why censorship is the authoritarian's dream.—
Robert Birsel
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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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
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The new Constitution’s supporters, known as Federalists, faced fierce opposition from Anti-Federalists who charged that a powerful national government, unrestrained by a bill of rights, would inevitably lead to tyranny.—
Donald Nieman,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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Males that tried to rule by asserting their dominance through violence, tyranny and threat did not last.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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If the Supreme Court officially makes the chief executive a unitary executive, the advancement of the public good may depend on little more than the whims of the president, a state of affairs normally more characteristic of dictatorship than democracy.—
Graham G. Dodds,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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The exec emphasized his excitement about being in the country a few months after Salles’ history-making drama about Brazil’s military dictatorship, a film that also scored nominations for best picture and actress for Fernanda Torres.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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