Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for totalitarians
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Not your grandma’s authoritarians Today’s authoritarian rulers realize that civil society has the potential to support democracy and pry loose their grip on power.—
Christopher Justin Einolf,
The Conversation,
26 Sep. 2025
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Trump has also always had a thing for autocrats.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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The book examines the worst acts of autocrats and tyrannical leaders dating back centuries.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
22 Jan. 2026
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Biden put this sentiment into action by working with Netanyahu despite serious moral and political failures in Gaza, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on NATO expansion, and with Gulf potentates on the region’s security architecture.—
James Jeffrey,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Nov. 2025
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Those historians were impressed by how much personal force the old tyrants could generate.—
David Brooks,
Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2026
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The world is full of bad actors—cheats, liars, tyrants, sickos—who are, ultimately, mere human beings; at least, this was how rationality would have it.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2026
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With a bottomless well of ideas, relentless encouragement, and a grin that only seems to widen by the season, the Wichita, Kansas, native runs TV’s most prolific reality competition series as the most benevolent of dictators.—
David Canfield,
Vanity Fair,
20 Jan. 2026
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Based in Boston, the international corporation networked with dictators and local officials in Central America, many Caribbean islands and parts of South America to acquire immense estates for railroads and banana plantations.—
Aaron Coy Moulton,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2026
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So what if the Engineers copied their own DNA to create humanity; how would the discovery of their existence further embolden the wealthy, who already see themselves as new gods, and drive further wedges between despots like the Five?—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
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That’s reminiscent of what the despots of Eastern Europe did during the Cold War, building huge concrete apartment blocks with meager square-foot allotments per family.—
Betsy McCaughey,
Boston Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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Repressive policies will eventually create uprising against the oppressors.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
16 Jan. 2026
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The film focuses on their heated debate, as some wish to fight their oppressors while others argue for a calculated escape.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Dec. 2025
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“Totalitarians.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/totalitarians. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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