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Recent Examples of Big Brother
But Slippery Slope was not the only the only classic Big Brother competition missing from this past season.
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Oct. 2025
Several of their fellow Big Brother housemates shared their excitement for the couple in the comment section.
—Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Technology and comfort: Electric luxury Tech is where the newborn Escalade IQ one-ups its big brother.
—Liam Rappleye, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
The Dance Moms alumna met the Love Island UK bombshell in April on Celebrity Big Brother UK.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
Most people do, in fact, experience ADHD symptoms from time to time, says Russ Jones, an ADHD productivity coach and host of the ADHD Big Brother podcast.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
The council’s press releases would become commonplace following that, leading campaigns to elevate complaints about everything from ER to CSI to Big Brother and the Emmy Awards.
—Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Contestants on the latest season of Big Brother UK are being reprimanded for misgendering and using homophobic language towards other housemates.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 8 Oct. 2025
This isn’t the Celebrity Big Brother cast member’s first time speaking up about her gender identity.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 4 Oct. 2025
Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Oct. 2025
Several of their fellow Big Brother housemates shared their excitement for the couple in the comment section.
—Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Technology and comfort: Electric luxury Tech is where the newborn Escalade IQ one-ups its big brother.
—Liam Rappleye, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
The Dance Moms alumna met the Love Island UK bombshell in April on Celebrity Big Brother UK.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
Most people do, in fact, experience ADHD symptoms from time to time, says Russ Jones, an ADHD productivity coach and host of the ADHD Big Brother podcast.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
The council’s press releases would become commonplace following that, leading campaigns to elevate complaints about everything from ER to CSI to Big Brother and the Emmy Awards.
—Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Contestants on the latest season of Big Brother UK are being reprimanded for misgendering and using homophobic language towards other housemates.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 8 Oct. 2025
This isn’t the Celebrity Big Brother cast member’s first time speaking up about her gender identity.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 4 Oct. 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
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No World Cup has been less about the self-aggrandizement of the hosts and yet no World Cup has ever been so overtly political as the 1938 tournament, as exiles from Germany and Italy took the opportunity to make very public their opposition to fascism.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Swept up in the cinema-making of Italy’s auteurs, Nicholas finds himself on the sets of Fellini’s Casanova and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, a harrowing film about the death throes and reincarnations of fascism made just before the director’s murder.—
Jasmine Vojdani,
Vulture,
4 Nov. 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
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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
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Not your grandma’s authoritarians Today’s authoritarian rulers realize that civil society has the potential to support democracy and pry loose their grip on power.—
Christopher Justin Einolf,
The Conversation,
26 Sep. 2025
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That is why censorship is the authoritarian's dream.—
Robert Birsel
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Continue reading … 'HISTORIC DAY' – Venezuelan opposition leader celebrates January 3 as 'day that justice defeated tyranny' after Maduro capture.—
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FOXNews.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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In the past, a popular uprising or a coup could bring tyranny to an end.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026
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Biden put this sentiment into action by working with Netanyahu despite serious moral and political failures in Gaza, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on NATO expansion, and with Gulf potentates on the region’s security architecture.—
James Jeffrey,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Nov. 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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His socialist dictatorship, hostile to human life, crushed Venezuelans’ freedoms for years.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
7 Jan. 2026
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One of his uncles had been part of the resistance to the right-wing military dictatorship that controlled Greece between 1967 and 1974.—
Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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