monocrat

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Noun
  • Conquerors and autocrats may win the immediate battle by bullying their subjects into submission, but their empires inevitably crumble the moment their iron grip falters.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • The autocrat delights in humiliating so many people, not least tech billionaires, including Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, who once opposed him.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • People looking to get a break from Big Brother may be up for spending more money to get that privacy, though who knows what the future will hold.
    Sara Lacey, The Drive, 25 June 2026
  • It was made for the skating magazine Big Brother, but the tape eventually helped Knoxville score a TV deal.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • And following the ousting of longtime dictator Bashir Al-Assad, Syria continues to have armed conflict and sectarian violence.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026
  • The most dangerous weapon for a democracy to put in control of an aspiring dictator is not necessarily the police or the military.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • These were the grounds of revolution in 1776 and what colonists held to be the markings of a tyrant.
    Robert Parkinson, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
  • Aegon, dragged out of King’s Landing by spymaster Lord Larys Strong (Matthew Needham) in an effort to save him from the fratricidal Aemond, gets an up-close look at the petty tyrants who have sprouted up in the countryside thanks to his impetuous rule.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Her male counterparts were also well represented, with pharaohs donning headdresses of various eras, their outfits playing on the contrast between polished, hammered, engraved and even beaded golds.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 9 June 2026
  • Last month, officials announced the discovery of a massive statue believed to depict the powerful pharaoh often linked to Exodus.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • Your structure sorts the whole world into two boxes, oppressor and oppressed.
    Joyce Kamanitz, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2026
  • An America where justice brings down oppressors and lifts up the ordinary.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
Noun
  • The cross was not meant to be a stage prop for strongmen.
    Otis Moss III, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • Latin America is swinging rightward again, electing presidents who promise to channel the strongmen of yore and rule the region through might, not right.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • The Boys – Season 5 (Prime Video) Things have gone from bad to worse in the final season of The Boys, Prime Video’s irreverent superhero satire about America succumbing to charismatic despots and fascistic opportunists.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • The writer-director sets her sophomore feature barely two years after the country shook off the despot’s iron grip.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
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“Monocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monocrat. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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