as in tyranny
a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power
a revolution that only ended up replacing one dictatorship with another
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Recent Examples of dictatorship
This was also a transformative period in Spanish history, just after the Franco dictatorship.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
The argument was that the US financial crisis triggered an economic debacle south of the border, destabilizing the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2025
Speaking about her film in a previous interview with Variety, Mumenthaler recalled how Geneva became a part of her life when her family fled Argentina during the country’s military dictatorship.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 25 Aug. 2025
Critics have warned that the efforts reflect those seen in countries under dictatorships.
—Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
The argument was that the US financial crisis triggered an economic debacle south of the border, destabilizing the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2025
Speaking about her film in a previous interview with Variety, Mumenthaler recalled how Geneva became a part of her life when her family fled Argentina during the country’s military dictatorship.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 25 Aug. 2025
Critics have warned that the efforts reflect those seen in countries under dictatorships.
—Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dictatorship
Noun
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Not every encounter or exchange needs to entail a lesson in semantics, or the tyranny of cultural sensitivity, or the dominance of white males in academia and everywhere else.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
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After decades of tyranny, Assad’s murderous regime fell in December 2024, turning Middle East geopolitics upside down.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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That those women and men who died to end slavery, to win basic rights, to win the vote, to dethrone monarchs and destroy the ancien régime, to fight Czarism and fascism and Nazism and imperialism and apartheid, were in some way our moral betters.—
Jack Sheehan
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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The rise of fascism encroaches on her like a disease, culminating in a personal invitation from Mussolini himself, but we’re dealt countless scenes of Eleonora’s psychosis before we’re granted a contextual explanation of what feeds it.—
Blake Simons,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Assayas addressed the timeliness of the Putin story in a world where autocracy seems to be relentlessly on the rise.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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Among Putin’s various motivations for launching this war, foremost is the threatening alternative that Ukraine’s open political system presents to his own autocracy.—
NATALIYA GUMENYUK,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Dictatorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dictatorship. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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