Big Brothers

noun

plural of Big Brother
as in paramounts

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  1. potentates
  2. autocrats
  3. authoritarians
  4. oppressors
Noun
  • With 775 rooms, the palace also provides office space for the royal bureaucracy and hosts lavish state dinners for visiting presidents and potentates.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • 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
Definition of potentates
Noun
  • Typically reserved for autocrats and crime bosses, sanctions can be devastating.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
  • Conquerors and autocrats may win the immediate battle by bullying their subjects into submission, but their empires inevitably crumble the moment their iron grip falters.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 24 June 2026
Definition of autocrats
Noun
  • Not your grandma’s authoritarians Today’s authoritarian rulers realize that civil society has the potential to support democracy and pry loose their grip on power.
    — Christopher Justin Einolf, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2025
Definition of authoritarians
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  • But in the museum's current telling, history is just an ongoing power struggle between oppressors and the oppressed.
    — Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 21 July 2026
  • An America where justice brings down oppressors and lifts up the ordinary.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
Definition of oppressors
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