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Recent Examples of Big Brother
Katherine Woodman of 'Big Brother' talks 'aggressive verbiage' around Rylie Jeffries, moreLooking for a free mini puzzle?
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David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2025
Who won the Power of Veto on 'Big Brother'?
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
All’s fair in the game of Big Brother, and Rachel’s certainly gonna Rachel!
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2025
Who is on the block on 'Big Brother'?
—David Wysong, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2025
Liam, when caught on a bad night, would frequently taunt his big brother onstage.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
First her dad, then her big brother Trina Frierson was the last of five children of an alcoholic mechanic, Herschel Gordon Frierson, and a hospital laundry room worker, Verta Mae Johnson Frierson, who cooked for her family every day before and after her shift.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
In a second photo, Watts captured her daughter Kai hugging her big brother before saying goodbye.
—Becca Longmire, People.com, 20 Aug. 2025
David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2025
Who won the Power of Veto on 'Big Brother'?
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
All’s fair in the game of Big Brother, and Rachel’s certainly gonna Rachel!
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2025
Who is on the block on 'Big Brother'?
—David Wysong, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2025
Liam, when caught on a bad night, would frequently taunt his big brother onstage.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
First her dad, then her big brother Trina Frierson was the last of five children of an alcoholic mechanic, Herschel Gordon Frierson, and a hospital laundry room worker, Verta Mae Johnson Frierson, who cooked for her family every day before and after her shift.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
In a second photo, Watts captured her daughter Kai hugging her big brother before saying goodbye.
—Becca Longmire, People.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brother
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Weaponizing social media and other U.S. businesses to do what the Constitution would not allow government to do is Big Brotherism.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
31 Mar. 2021
Noun
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That those women and men who died to end slavery, to win basic rights, to win the vote, to dethrone monarchs and destroy the ancien régime, to fight Czarism and fascism and Nazism and imperialism and apartheid, were in some way our moral betters.—
Jack Sheehan
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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The rise of fascism encroaches on her like a disease, culminating in a personal invitation from Mussolini himself, but we’re dealt countless scenes of Eleonora’s psychosis before we’re granted a contextual explanation of what feeds it.—
Blake Simons,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
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But, ten years later, his embrace of near-totalitarian control bears the deep imprint of his most personal beliefs about force, weakness, faith, and order.—
Evan Osnos,
The New Yorker,
23 Oct. 2022
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But that would not address the fundamental goal of the protests: to end the totalitarian stranglehold that has subjected the Cubans to an unbearable serfdom.—
Néstor T. Carbonell,
National Review,
16 July 2021
Noun
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Still, some historians object to reincarnating a place so central to Nazism as a cultural venue for pleasure.—
Shira Li Bartov,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
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Threat of communism, along with awful economic misery, spawned fascism and Nazism, and World War II.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
22 July 2025
Noun
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Guard won’t be deployed ‘indefinitely’ Trump’s use of the National Guard in Washington, DC and Los Angeles has led to some Democrats calling him an authoritarian.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
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Not every encounter or exchange needs to entail a lesson in semantics, or the tyranny of cultural sensitivity, or the dominance of white males in academia and everywhere else.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
29 Aug. 2025
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After decades of tyranny, Assad’s murderous regime fell in December 2024, turning Middle East geopolitics upside down.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Why don’t all the rich potentates, sheiks, oligarchs and MAGA dictators meet and fix it?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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With the pandemic, the year-round population of a once-seasonal resort town swelled with Manhattan refugees, those in the Trump orbit, and tech and finance potentates, many of them serious collectors like Ken Griffin and Steve Ross.—
Ben Widdicombe,
Vulture,
12 May 2025
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Brazil's democracy emerged from a brutal military dictatorship just 40 years ago.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
2 Sep. 2025
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Brazil’s violent past has yet to be fully reckoned with, but this trial marks a historic departure from impunity, said Lucas Figueiredo, the author of several books about the country’s most recent dictatorship.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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