Thesaurus results for AUTOCRAT

autocrat

noun

ˈȯ-tə-ˌkrat

as in ruler

one who rules over a people with a sole, supreme, and usually hereditary authority European autocrats once commonly believed that they had received the right to rule directly from God

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Recent Examples of autocrat Comments like that fuel criticism of Orbán as an autocrat. —

Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026 The lurch from declaring fears about Iran to be mere media exaggerations to invoking imminent threat, from demanding the Nobel Peace Prize to luxuriating in lethality, is the essence of the autocrat’s monopoly on unpredictability. —

Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026 Even as long-reigning autocrats such as Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are removed from power, the outlook for the global state of democracy remains highly uncertain. —

Yana Gorokhovskaia, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2026 And Barack Obama deployed the military to take out Libyan autocrat Muammar Gaddafi. —

Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for autocrat

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Once stuff does start growing, STEM-loving kids can use rulers to measure their plants on a daily or weekly basis.

— Jamie Siebrase, Denver Post, 20 May 2026
Its clerical rulers, who put down a mass uprising at the start of the year, have faced no sign of organized opposition since the war began.

— Reuters, NBC news, 20 May 2026