BIG BROTHERISM Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

Big Brotherism

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as in Big Brother

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Worthington scored an agent in the aftermath and has since appeared on Big Brother Australia 8 and Australian Ninja Warrior.

— Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Nov. 2026
Richards will oversee finance for the combined Banijay Rights-All3Media International sales outfit, which now has a catalog of more than 250,000 hours including Peaky Blinders, Big Brother and MasterChef.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of Big Brother

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But that belies what many critics have decried as authoritarian actions by this administration, and these comparisons with fascism continue to animate public discourse.

— Matthew N. Hannah, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026
There’s cheering approval for Adolf Hitler and fascism in general.

— Nathan Taylor Pemberton, Vanity Fair, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of fascism

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President Roosevelt also led the United States through the Second World War, mobilizing the Nation after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and serving as Commander-in-Chief throughout the Allied effort to defeat Nazism and fascism.

— New York Times, New York Times, 11 June 2026
The writing includes numerical codes and abbreviations that reference Nazism, as well as messages about past mass shootings.

— Brynn Gingras, CNN Money, 19 May 2026

Definition of Nazism

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The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms as a safeguard against tyranny and for personal security.

— Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 4 Nov. 2026
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of tyranny

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The first project is about the disappearance of petty criminal El Nani (aka Santiago Correla) in 1980s Spain during the country’s transition out of dictatorship and into democracy.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2026
Nixon had called Cuba a dictatorship prior to the interview, and has repeated that position since.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of dictatorship

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