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autarchs

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plural of autarch

as in monocrats

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Typically reserved for autocrats and crime bosses, sanctions can be devastating.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
Conquerors and autocrats may win the immediate battle by bullying their subjects into submission, but their empires inevitably crumble the moment their iron grip falters.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 24 June 2026

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An America where justice brings down oppressors and lifts up the ordinary.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
And did the advocates of this collective pedagogy imagine their children rising to heights of power, only to view the darker nations of the world through the same violent lens as their oppressors?

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026

Definition of oppressors

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Trump has praised Communist dictators in terms unlike those used by any American president outside the context of a wartime alliance.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Will people who flee dictators and endless poverty be permitted lawfully to cross America’s shores and borders in search of a better life?

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026

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Because, after all, as in all of Haber’s novels, the point is not really what is happening in the world but what is happening in the mind—in this case the mind of the pettiest of tyrants.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
Aegon, dragged out of King’s Landing by spymaster Lord Larys Strong (Matthew Needham) in an effort to save him from the fratricidal Aemond, gets an up-close look at the petty tyrants who have sprouted up in the countryside thanks to his impetuous rule.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 June 2026

Definition of tyrants

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In Egypt, certain pharaohs seemed, for reasons still debated, to tilt their own representations from the ideal to the natural.

— Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Her male counterparts were also well represented, with pharaohs donning headdresses of various eras, their outfits playing on the contrast between polished, hammered, engraved and even beaded golds.

— Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 9 June 2026

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