Thesaurus results for TYRANTS

tyrants

noun

plural of tyrant

as in dictators

a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way the people universally feared the tyrant, who was notorious for his frequent use of torture

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Recent Examples of tyrants To add to the second-hand embarrassment, a gaudy amusement park proves a vital part of Homelander’s plan—after all, fascists and tyrants tend to have bad taste. —

Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026 The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants. —

CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026 Ready to meet the season's new allies, enemies, tyrants, and giants? —

Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026 At the time, Athens had just emerged from a period of dictatorship and some of his students had been among the tyrants who sought to take down Athens’ democracy. —

Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026 All kings and tyrants fail in the end. —

Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026 Aspiring tyrants inevitably promise security and food on the table. —

Anand Gopal, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026 Those historians were impressed by how much personal force the old tyrants could generate. —

David Brooks, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026 That project of getting the benefits of Western civilization without its freedom and rights, that’s one that has vexed tyrants all over the world. —

David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026

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dictators

Noun

The opportunity to interview these people would never have been turned down by other organizations, but there was also a sense that these dictators and terrorists and authoritarians were realizing that CNN were giving them this unfiltered platform to speak to the American people.

— Dana Taylor, USA Today, 13 May 2026
Even under military threat, many dictators and authoritarian leaders — Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia, Bashar al-Assad in Syria and earlier this year, Maduro in Venezuela — have chosen resistance until the last minute.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026