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Recent Examples of antidemocratic
Failure to hold antidemocratic actions to account paves the way for a deeper erosion of democracy, Dr. Pereira warns, and Brazil is still reeling from the assault on its institutions.
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Constance Malleret, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
The United States must not hesitate in ensuring that a democracy, Ukraine, does not succumb to an antidemocratic, autocratic, dictatorial and villainous Russia.
—Askold Haywas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
Most South Koreans had thought such antidemocratic attitudes had long been banished from the country’s political culture.
—Robert E. Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2025
And many conservatives claim this whole system is antidemocratic.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 4 Mar. 2025
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Constance Malleret, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
The United States must not hesitate in ensuring that a democracy, Ukraine, does not succumb to an antidemocratic, autocratic, dictatorial and villainous Russia.
—Askold Haywas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
Most South Koreans had thought such antidemocratic attitudes had long been banished from the country’s political culture.
—Robert E. Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2025
And many conservatives claim this whole system is antidemocratic.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antidemocratic
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Eighty years later, Kubilius says, Western democracies face a different form of totalitarian aggression.—
Tamar Jacoby,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Still, the subtext remained clear and ominous: The United States is at risk of becoming a real-life Gilead, the totalitarian regime that rules over what used to be America in The Handmaid’s Tale.—
Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2025
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The Collector is also hoping these will satiate the growing wants of his oppressive overlord, The Forger (Roddy Ricch), who has mysterious motives of his own.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
17 Apr. 2025
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The current war in Sudan involves civil strife and shifting allegiances, in which one oppressive regime was toppled by a coalition, which then turned in on itself, leading to an even more vicious war.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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His parents were Italian immigrants who fled Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime, and his grandmother Rosa Margherita Vassallo di Bergoglio was active in Catholic Action, formed by Italian bishops who wanted to maintain their independence from Mussolini’s authoritarian rule.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been called an authoritarian, and previous reports have noted restrictions to civil liberties.—
Graham Smith,
NPR,
18 Apr. 2025
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Critics, including autocratic governments across the region, view it as a threat.—
Omar Akour,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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As Jews prepare to celebrate Passover’s theme of freedom, Israel and the United States face the prospect of autocratic rule.—
Ben Krull,
New York Daily News,
12 Apr. 2025
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And currently, there is Charles Gaines’ magisterial new works, Numbers and Trees, The Tanzania Baobabs, at Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood (on view through May 31, 2025).—
Tom Teicholz,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Image Memento Mori by Muriel Spark Few writers were as capable of scalpel-sharp dissection of the rich as the Scottish novelist Muriel Spark, whose magisterial social satires remain relevant even half a century later.—
Calum Marsh,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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And what can today’s resistance movements facing tyrannical regimes learn from their success?—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
20 Apr. 2025
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Howard plays himself as a tyrannical auteur who petulantly refuses to cut a vacuous scene from his overlong thriller, warding off pleas only to change his mind at the moment of truth.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Antidemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antidemocratic. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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