as in tyranny
a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power
having just thrown off the yoke of Great Britain, the American Founding Fathers were adamantly opposed to establishing some form of homegrown autarchy
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Recent Examples of autarchy
But that’s the point: These people don’t live in an autarchy.
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David Marchesephotograph By Christopher Anderson/magnum, For The New York Times, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
But Russia’s economy is far too small to be an autarchy.
—Robert Zubrin, National Review, 10 May 2021
David Marchesephotograph By Christopher Anderson/magnum, For The New York Times, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
But Russia’s economy is far too small to be an autarchy.
—Robert Zubrin, National Review, 10 May 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for autarchy
Noun
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Cutié, 56, knows about the tyranny many Cubans have lived under.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
14 Mar. 2026
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Was her exclusion from the political world not its own kind of tyranny?—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The White House believes Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is calling the shots, a significant change from the theocratic dictatorship that has existed since the country's 1979 revolution.—
Jennifer Jacobs,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026
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Where the Silence Is Heard follows her journey of renovating the house and piecing together her family’s history, which has been colored by the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, exile, and decades of silence.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In Germany, the generation who educate the next generation, this is totally destroyed because of the fascism between ‘33 and ‘45.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2026
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The dark joke on both sides of the record is that fascism wasn’t defeated in World War II, only domesticated.—
Andrew Katzenstein,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
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For example, in the 1930s, four major democracies (Germany, Japan, Italy, and Spain) became autocracies.—
Ray Dalio,
Fortune,
14 Mar. 2026
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There’s a lot of different crumbs of what leads to the autocracy, to the potential dictatorship.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The protesters from across the Czech Republic attended the peaceful demonstration Saturday at Letna Park, the scene of huge gatherings in 1989 during the Velvet Revolution that ushered in democracy after decades of communist authoritarianism.—
Karel Janicek,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Mar. 2026
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When seen like that, as a sequence of facts, the logic of authoritarianism becomes clear.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Autarchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autarchy. Accessed 24 Mar. 2026.
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