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Recent Examples of antidemocratic
The country’s far right, which now controls 30 percent of Parliament, has normalized radical antidemocratic rhetoric and mobilized a disenchanted electorate that sees liberal governance not as a safeguard but as a barrier to reform.
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Veronica Anghel, Foreign Affairs, 21 May 2025
Several prominent tech figures, most notably Musk and Thiel, have embraced an antidemocratic worldview.
—Ian Bremmer, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2025
Experts say the moves will create a vacuum for promoting freedom and representative government, and could accelerate what many see as antidemocratic trends around the world.
—Christine Fernando, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been under government surveillance for years, suspected of antidemocratic activity.
—Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2025
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Veronica Anghel, Foreign Affairs, 21 May 2025
Several prominent tech figures, most notably Musk and Thiel, have embraced an antidemocratic worldview.
—Ian Bremmer, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2025
Experts say the moves will create a vacuum for promoting freedom and representative government, and could accelerate what many see as antidemocratic trends around the world.
—Christine Fernando, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been under government surveillance for years, suspected of antidemocratic activity.
—Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antidemocratic
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The story, which comprises three books altogether, explores the dangerous yet heroic actions taken by a group of rebels to topple a totalitarian regime that has inflicted fear and hatred upon its citizens.—
Robert English,
EW.com,
30 July 2025
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Set to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10 (a work long associated with the composer’s fraught relationship with Stalin) the film interrogates the tension between artistic freedom and totalitarian control.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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What was mostly missing was the occasional cool front that pushes out the most oppressive heat and humidity.—
Staff And Wire Reports,
Boston Herald,
10 Aug. 2025
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Driving in Palm Beach County — home to Mar-a-Lago — the windows are up, and the AC is blasting to counter the oppressive heat and humidity outside.—
David Culver,
CNN Money,
10 Aug. 2025
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The interim government, formed shortly afterward under the leadership of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, was widely hailed as a new chapter for Bangladesh: a chance to repair years of authoritarian rule, enforced disappearances, corruption and human rights abuses.—
Shamim Chowdhury,
NPR,
5 Aug. 2025
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To level set: The North Korean IT worker scheme is a vast conspiracy to evade punishing financial sanctions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the result of authoritarian ruler Kim Jong Un’s human-rights abuses and relentless quest to develop weapons of mass destruction.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
4 Aug. 2025
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This nonfiction account from the Pulitzer-prize winning writer analyzes 21st century autocratic states worldwide, and how democracies can best organize underneath them.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Taiwan’s parties, in other words, portray their opponents not just as politically different but as autocratic traitors.—
LEV NACHMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Aug. 2025
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The most recent of these, Wildcat Dome, originally published in Japan in 2013 and newly translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, is an ambitious, at times magisterial, epic.—
Katie Kitamura,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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Twain’s narrative boasts some—discrepancies is too magisterial a word … peculiarities, say.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2025
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The tyrannical emperor connected with Atari to debut his 9-foot-tall, multi-piece suit.—
Carlos Rico,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 July 2025
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Since his memorable performance on the Netflix sci-fi show, Quinn has starred alongside Lupita Nyong’o in A Quiet Place: Day One and played a tyrannical emperor in Gladiator II.—
Olivia Singh,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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“Antidemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antidemocratic. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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