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Noun
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Make this a contest between fast new trains and an aging autocrat, and California wins.—
Joe Mathews,
Mercury News,
2 Aug. 2025 -
That lag time has been criticized across Europe, with officials and experts asking why Trump is giving additional time to an autocrat who has hardly wavered in his desire to subjugate Ukraine.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
15 July 2025
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President Trump is, once again, testing the limits of his power, hoping to intimidate other cities into submission to his every vengeful whim by making the once unimaginable—an American tyrant ordering a military occupation of our own capital—a terrifying reality.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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Jack Nicholson’s McMurphy, a swaggering trickster figure, clashes with the institution’s quiet tyrant, Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), in a battle not just of wills, but of worldviews: chaos versus order, freedom versus conformity.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
29 July 2025
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So, this is all an opportunity for Donald Trump to play dictator in Washington, D.C.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Aug. 2025
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Romanian dictator [Nicolae] Ceaușescu led a lot of influential and rich foreign people to come to this place close to Bucharest secretly, and one of them was Chaplin.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Aug. 2025
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Public disorder would discredit the local rulers in the eyes of their Papal overlords and possibly lead to dismissal from power.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
31 July 2025
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As a late-night host, Letterman often mocked his corporate overlords at NBC and CBS.—
William Earl,
Variety,
26 July 2025
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The Trump administration’s African diplomatic team has made headway in striking a deal with the nation in which the U.S. would provide security assistance to the DRC government in its fight against warlords in return for U.S. access to critical minerals within the country.—
John Berlau,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Resting after a wild boar hunt, warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to divide his domain among his three sons.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
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By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
10 July 2025
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The American Declaration of Independence and Constitution frightened monarchies and despots around the world without a single bullet or gunboat.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Apr. 2025
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In addition to the arrest warrant, the Russian strongman might have trouble flying over Europe and Canada, both of which have closed their airspace to Russian aircraft.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
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Trump's sit-down with Putin on Friday will be the first time a U.S. president has met with the Russian strongman since June 2021, when then-President Joe Biden encountered him at a bilateral summit.—
Sonam Sheth,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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His personal goal was surely the vanity of wanting to have never been wrong and the superpower of always being right—George Orwell speaks of the theological nature of totalitarians, who must constantly alter the past to claim to be always right in the present.—
Rebecca Solnit
April 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2021
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Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orange County Register,
17 Oct. 2020
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“Autarch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autarch. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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