autarch

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Noun
  • Fear, after all, is an essential tool for all autocrats, and Hamas is no exception.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • To an aspiring autocrat, power exists so that it can be abused.
    Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So, the politicians must do more than push back against the White House tyrant.
    Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And while the band's frontman Freddie Mercury only made it into his 40s, the song's question continues to haunt people—especially aging tyrants who fear that the icy hand of death is upon their shoulder and want far more time to ensure both national and personal glory.
    Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Her party, the Brothers of Italy, was founded by followers of former dictator Benito Mussolini as a post-fascist movement following WWII.
    Dan Gooding Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • For Machado and the Venezuelan opposition, embracing a narrative in which Maduro is a drug lord, not just a dictator, is a bit of a gamble.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The poem presents the Trojans, and the future Romans of Virgil’s own time, as both the underdogs and the oppressors, both the migrants and the colonizers, both the wretched refugees and the imperial overlords.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Man-su is at his workplace, where the incoming American overlords are cutting back and making 20% of the workforce redundant.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But Demerzel is not about to gift the Empire to a warlord, and as soon as the three representatives open communications with the Mule, Demerzel does the same and presents a hologram of Dusk.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This thrilling prequel stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa and Alyla Browne as young Furiosa, who is abducted by the savage warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) — leader of the Biker Horde — and spends the next decade in captivity plotting her revenge and escape.
    Charlotte Walsh, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The poem presents the Trojans, and the future Romans of Virgil’s own time, as both the underdogs and the oppressors, both the migrants and the colonizers, both the wretched refugees and the imperial overlords.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And Dafoe, an actor who’s always excelled at playing off-kilter figures, keeps us guessing about the soft-spoken but steely Anniston, who seems intent on paying for not only his sins but those of oppressors in general.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Kornbluth: On depression and despots Josh Kornbluth has established himself over the years as one of the Bay Area’s best storytellers.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2025
  • To justify their repression and retain the throne, despots require a big enemy and manufacture security threats that lead to more wars.
    S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • She had not been permitted to run against the strongman president, Nicolás Maduro, in the summer of 2024, but by the tallies of electoral observers (an official count is still unavailable), her surrogate garnered a majority of the vote.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The persecution worsened more than a decade ago during uprisings that remade the Middle East by toppling dictators — including Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak — but in some places spiraled into civil war.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Autarch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autarch. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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