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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brothers
Noun
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Fear, after all, is an essential tool for all autocrats, and Hamas is no exception.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025 -
Both would be peace efforts – but Trump is well known to praise these autocrats.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Movie lovers tend to think of producers as dictators of formulas, oppressors of originality, the enemies of art, but that just reflects the unfortunate history of studio filmmaking in Hollywood and elsewhere.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
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The poem presents the Trojans, and the future Romans of Virgil’s own time, as both the underdogs and the oppressors, both the migrants and the colonizers, both the wretched refugees and the imperial overlords.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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