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Recent Examples of Big Brother
The couple's newest addition joins big brother Hudson, whom LeCroy shares with ex-husband Josh Hughes.
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Kayla Grant, People.com, 14 July 2025
Marsh became a mentor and a big brother figure: tough, but wise and full of grace.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 13 July 2025
The show will also airing Big Brother: Unlocked every other Friday beginning July 25, airing from 8 to 9 p.m. ET.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
And Clyde, settling into the big brother role, drops multiple toys at Marshall's feet—a chew toy and a pillow—both of which are almost as big as the puppy himself.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Competition was fostered in the Taylor household, and younger Ethan never got any reprieve on the basketball court from his big brother.
—Devon Henderson, Oc Register, 6 July 2025
Virginia Madsen is remembering her big brother Michael for his legacy off the screen following the actor’s death on Thursday at the age of 67.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 4 July 2025
Nashville Tennessean Good morning, friends, this is Tennessean columnist Brad Schmitt, in Cleveland, Ohio, right now to celebrate my big brother Scott's birthday.
—The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Midwest Premiere | Eleven-year-old Luna lives with her big brother, Julien, and her two adoptive fathers.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Kayla Grant, People.com, 14 July 2025
Marsh became a mentor and a big brother figure: tough, but wise and full of grace.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 13 July 2025
The show will also airing Big Brother: Unlocked every other Friday beginning July 25, airing from 8 to 9 p.m. ET.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
And Clyde, settling into the big brother role, drops multiple toys at Marshall's feet—a chew toy and a pillow—both of which are almost as big as the puppy himself.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Competition was fostered in the Taylor household, and younger Ethan never got any reprieve on the basketball court from his big brother.
—Devon Henderson, Oc Register, 6 July 2025
Virginia Madsen is remembering her big brother Michael for his legacy off the screen following the actor’s death on Thursday at the age of 67.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 4 July 2025
Nashville Tennessean Good morning, friends, this is Tennessean columnist Brad Schmitt, in Cleveland, Ohio, right now to celebrate my big brother Scott's birthday.
—The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Midwest Premiere | Eleven-year-old Luna lives with her big brother, Julien, and her two adoptive fathers.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brother
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Stephen Graybill performs this audiobook with the skill of a newscaster who’s recounting revelation upon revelation about the spies on both sides of the war (and the Atlantic) who were using their skills to urge Americans to join the desperate struggle against fascism, or not.—
AudioFile Magazine
July 31,
Literary Hub,
31 July 2025
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Colbert has consistently called out Donald Trump and slammed the media’s growing cowardice in the face of fascism.—
Lizz Winstead,
Rolling Stone,
25 July 2025
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His personal goal was surely the vanity of wanting to have never been wrong and the superpower of always being right—George Orwell speaks of the theological nature of totalitarians, who must constantly alter the past to claim to be always right in the present.—
Rebecca Solnit
April 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2021
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Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orange County Register,
17 Oct. 2020
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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
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The dark side of the story was the murder by rabid Nazis — hangings and death by beating — of scores of fellow prisoners who were accused of faltering belief in Hitler and Nazism.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
10 July 2025
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whose own family fled Cuba, surely understands the desperation that drives people to seek refuge from tyranny.—
Arlene Marcus,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Aug. 2025
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Had any Democratic president tried to so directly politicize these independent agencies Republicans would be screaming about the coming tyranny.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
10 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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Instead, the Islamic Republic survives as a massively unpopular dictatorship, economically ruined, internationally isolated, and battered by both the U.S. and Israel.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
5 Aug. 2025
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This, in turn spawned totalitarian dictatorships and led to World War II.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
29 July 2025
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Make this a contest between fast new trains and an aging autocrat, and California wins.—
Joe Mathews,
Mercury News,
2 Aug. 2025
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That lag time has been criticized across Europe, with officials and experts asking why Trump is giving additional time to an autocrat who has hardly wavered in his desire to subjugate Ukraine.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
15 July 2025
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The Trump administration’s African diplomatic team has made headway in striking a deal with the nation in which the U.S. would provide security assistance to the DRC government in its fight against warlords in return for U.S. access to critical minerals within the country.—
John Berlau,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Resting after a wild boar hunt, warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to divide his domain among his three sons.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
23 May 2025
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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