totalitarians

plural of totalitarian

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for totalitarians
Noun
  • Both would be peace efforts – but Trump is well known to praise these autocrats.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the countries represented at the summit were represented by autocrats of one or other description—such as Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian and Belarus’s Aleksandr Lukashenko.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And while the band's frontman Freddie Mercury only made it into his 40s, the song's question continues to haunt people—especially aging tyrants who fear that the icy hand of death is upon their shoulder and want far more time to ensure both national and personal glory.
    Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But by positioning this as a story of a younger generation refusing to cede their liberties to tyrants, Loktev has made a film about resistance, putting a human face on the daily struggles concerned citizens must endure to take back their country.
    Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Xi was flanked by Putin and Kim, two brutal and aggressive dictators whom many nations would rather shun.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But wooing Western partners would likely involve some compromises that these dictators are probably unwilling to make.
    Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The poem presents the Trojans, and the future Romans of Virgil’s own time, as both the underdogs and the oppressors, both the migrants and the colonizers, both the wretched refugees and the imperial overlords.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Totalitarians.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totalitarians. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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