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Recent Examples of autocrat Where dictators of the past tried to impose a national ideology, today’s autocrats focus on projecting a sense of competence. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Apr. 2025 Trump is somewhat incompetent at being an autocrat right now. Steve Inskeep, NPR, 6 June 2025 Others counter that labeling Trump an autocrat is alarmist. Daniel Treisman, The Conversation, 3 June 2025 And that has really been different from a lot of these other aspiring autocrats in recent years. Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for autocrat
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Noun
  • The ultimate ruler on the appeal of the board’s decision is the board.
    Mercury News Editorial, Mercury News, 27 June 2025
  • But today’s escalating tensions go back to 1953, when British oil companies and the CIA orchestrated a coup and installed the Shah of Iran, a secular ruler willing to accommodate Big Oil and other corporate interests in the West.
    Robert Polner, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • However, the long-reigning monarch never wore the Greville tiara in public, likely due to its significant connection to her late mother.
    Meredith Kile, People.com, 4 July 2025
  • The revolutionary focus was, and remains today, on the rights of the individual — not the state, not the monarch, not a corporate entity, not a particular economic or social class, and certainly not the military.
    Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025

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“Autocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autocrat. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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