monocracy

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Recent Examples of monocracy The Biden administration justified its decision — or no decision — with the tired old rationalizations and justifications that the U.S. has been using for years to give the medieval monocracy a pass on human rights violations. Ahmed Tharwat, Star Tribune, 1 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monocracy
Noun
  • Khomeini sought to replace the monarchy with a religious state ruled by an Islamic jurist.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The country has for years been dominated by a conservative establishment comprising the military, the monarchy and influential elites.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • This, in turn spawned totalitarian dictatorships and led to World War II.
    Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • But a slave mentality remains deeply ingrained in Russian minds, along with a latent monarchism and paternalism.
    Nikita Petrov, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
  • But for anyone outside the British elite, the constitutional monarchism that emerged after the civil wars did not look much like democracy or true liberty.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Monocracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monocracy. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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