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Recent Examples of Big Brother
Midwest Premiere | Eleven-year-old Luna lives with her big brother, Julien, and her two adoptive fathers.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Aw, Demetrius is such a good (if tough) big brother.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 June 2025
Ann loved her big brother but had not been blind to his faults.
—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
Finishing eighth in the race was Langston Thompson, who came over to hug his big brother.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 12 June 2025
The duo shared congratulatory snaps posted by their big brothers: Quincy, 33, Justin, 31, and Christian, 27.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 23 May 2025
The judges are judging them, and Jelly Roll is their big brother.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 16 May 2025
Haliburton says McConnell is like a big brother to him, always knowing what needs to be done, always knowing what needs to be said.
—Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
Lilibet was born in Santa Barbara, Calif., in 2021, two years after her big brother, Archie Harrison, in May 2019.
—Audrey Schmidt, People.com, 4 June 2025
Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Aw, Demetrius is such a good (if tough) big brother.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 June 2025
Ann loved her big brother but had not been blind to his faults.
—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
Finishing eighth in the race was Langston Thompson, who came over to hug his big brother.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 12 June 2025
The duo shared congratulatory snaps posted by their big brothers: Quincy, 33, Justin, 31, and Christian, 27.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 23 May 2025
The judges are judging them, and Jelly Roll is their big brother.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 16 May 2025
Haliburton says McConnell is like a big brother to him, always knowing what needs to be done, always knowing what needs to be said.
—Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
Lilibet was born in Santa Barbara, Calif., in 2021, two years after her big brother, Archie Harrison, in May 2019.
—Audrey Schmidt, People.com, 4 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brother
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The New York Times selected it as a Notable Book of the Year in 1994, praising its examination of racial justice, climate collapse and fascism.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Eldest daughter Nancy wrote incisive comic and romantic novels about her social set—as well as a sendup of fascism, Wigs on the Green.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 June 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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Research conducted for exhibits on Nolde in Frankfurt in 2014 and in Berlin in 2019 revealed the artist’s true relationship to Nazism to the wider public.—
Ombline Damy,
JSTOR Daily,
26 June 2025
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Sanders recalled how the United States just celebrated the anniversary of D-Day on Friday, in which U.S. troops began the landing of Normandy to defeat fascism and Nazism.—
Asher Notheis,
The Washington Examiner,
8 June 2025
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This position does not mean in any way ignoring four decades of mismanagement, corruption, oppression, tyranny and incompetence of the Islamic Republic.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
18 June 2025
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Ever since America’s founders decided that the best way to prevent tyranny was to diffuse power across branches of government, those branches of government have competed for authority.—
Jacob Turcotte,
Christian Science Monitor,
17 June 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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But just as important to the Poles living under Soviet dictatorship were art books, fashion magazines, religious texts, lighthearted novels and regular newspapers.—
Valorie Castellanos Clark,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
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Nearly 50 years into an unwanted dictatorship, Iranians have developed a refined capacity for identifying bad faith.—
Shervin Malekzadeh,
Mercury News,
26 June 2025
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Like the Victor Hugo novel that inspired it, the musical rails against autocrats and the systems that elevate them.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2025
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Biden often spoke about Putin’s threat beyond Ukraine’s borders, both in terms of taking more territory in former Soviet states and emboldening autocrats around the world.—
Colin Meyn,
The Hill,
11 June 2025
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And in the case that Israel withdrew without laying the groundwork for alternative governance, either Hamas would return or chaos would reign, with local warlords battling for control amid extreme human suffering.—
Assaf Orion,
Foreign Affairs,
3 June 2025
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The Oscar-winning actor has embodied pure menace more than once throughout his decades-long career, with roles ranging from the iconic vampire of Bram Stoker's Dracula to the peacock warlord, Lord Shen, in Kung Fu Panda 2.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
18 June 2025
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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