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Recent Examples of antidemocratic
Like many of his colleagues, Edwards conceded that Trump and MAGA expressed disturbingly antidemocratic sentiments that exceeded presidential norms.
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Jason Blakely, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
By partly neutralizing criticism that its leaders are elitist or antidemocratic, the right has been able to focus on issues that play to its strengths.
—Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Indiana’s vote should also mark the end of the absurd and antidemocratic gerrymandering push by the president.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 16 Dec. 2025
That is why critics of gerrymandering are right to regard it as antidemocratic.
—Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
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Jason Blakely, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
By partly neutralizing criticism that its leaders are elitist or antidemocratic, the right has been able to focus on issues that play to its strengths.
—Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Indiana’s vote should also mark the end of the absurd and antidemocratic gerrymandering push by the president.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 16 Dec. 2025
That is why critics of gerrymandering are right to regard it as antidemocratic.
—Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antidemocratic
Adjective
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This is a totalitarian ideological regime.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
4 Mar. 2026
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Paksa restages the medium’s tendency toward repetition but strips it of entertainment value, revealing the medium as an extension of totalitarian control.—
Daniel R. Quiles,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Joel, played by Pedro Pascal, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie (Bella Ramsey), a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
16 Mar. 2026
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McElya described this as an oppressive framework that barred representation of LGBTQ+ identities.—
Elijah Polance,
Hartford Courant,
14 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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This film exposes the brutal dismantling of women’s rights under an authoritarian regime.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Mar. 2026
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And how some close to him bristled when asked questions about his authoritarian streak and his departure from organizing, distractions that left the union’s power flagging.—
James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Huerta became one of Chavez’s fiercest defenders even after revelations about his autocratic ways became public — but what else was she supposed to do when people tied so much of her identity to him?—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2026
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Numerous Democratic lawmakers denounced Carr’s threat as a page straight out of an autocratic playbook.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
16 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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With this reinvention, the show morphed from a workplace drama into something more like a magisterial airport novel.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
2 Mar. 2026
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But the magisterial opera composer Franz Schreker was shattered by the events of 1933 and died of a stroke the following year.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Enslaved by a tyrannical regime for nearly half a century, everyday Iranians long passionately for their freedom, as the rebellion earlier this year showed.—
Michael M. Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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Our founding fathers experienced the heavy hand of a tyrannical government.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Antidemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antidemocratic. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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