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Noun
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Increasingly, Big Tech is siding with autocrats, and the platforms’ designs help keep society under control.—
Lisa Schirch,
The Conversation,
7 July 2025 -
This crisis destabilizes regions, fuels mass migration, and empowers anti-American autocrats.—
Kevin Sabet,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
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The uniform marks him as a firefighter from the old regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted in December 2024 after a nearly 14-year civil war.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
10 July 2025
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Talks between Israel and Syria are ongoing, which would have been unthinkable during the reign of former dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose partnership with Iran and insistence that Israel hand over the Golan Heights to Damascus in exchange for normalization nipped any détente in the bud.—
Daniel R. DePetris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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The message would then be clear: The Russian tyrant won’t break Ukraine.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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King George is a tyrant who is unfit to lead people.—
arkansasonline.com,
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4 July 2025
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The find marked the first time archaeologists have unearthed a pharaoh’s tomb since 1922, when King Tutankhamun’s burial site was identified.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2025
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And some of the pharaohs after Khufu include Khafre, Djedefra and Menkaure — the latter of whom was likely Shepsekaf's father.—
Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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The attacks on Putin mark a dramatic shift from Trump, who has spent years defending the Kremlin strongman.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
8 July 2025
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The problem was that in fighting markets in the way that foreign policy types fight democracy, strongmen, and in between, the U.S. foreign policy establishment robs countries of the essential cleansing and recovery that can only be preceded by allotment of failure.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
10 July 2025
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The American Declaration of Independence and Constitution frightened monarchies and despots around the world without a single bullet or gunboat.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Apr. 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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The trailer teases fights from the critical tournament, where if Earth's fighters lose, the Outworld overlord Shao Kahn (played by Martyn Ford) will take over.—
Sharareh Drury,
People.com,
17 July 2025
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How Businesses Must Respond to the Existential Risks of AI This is not a warning about robot overlords.—
Jason Snyder,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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“Monocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monocrat. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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