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Recent Examples of undemocratic
The researchers created a browser extension that can push down or move up posts in users’ X feeds that display attitudes linked to polarization, such as partisan animosity and support for undemocratic practices.
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Simon Makin, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026
Voters also backed a proposal to change the constitution, with nearly two-thirds in favor of replacing a charter put in place after a 2014 military coup, which critics say gave too much power to an undemocratic senate.
—Reuters, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
This Department of Justice has no tolerance for undemocratic judicial activism.
—Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2025
Supervisor David Canepa, who pushed for a public vote, called the decision undemocratic but was outnumbered.
—Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
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Simon Makin, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026
Voters also backed a proposal to change the constitution, with nearly two-thirds in favor of replacing a charter put in place after a 2014 military coup, which critics say gave too much power to an undemocratic senate.
—Reuters, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
This Department of Justice has no tolerance for undemocratic judicial activism.
—Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2025
Supervisor David Canepa, who pushed for a public vote, called the decision undemocratic but was outnumbered.
—Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undemocratic
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Sure, but any leader of any country, democratic, nondemocratic, whatever else, is going to want a military that’s competent.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
12 Feb. 2026
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In nondemocratic regimes, senior officials wall themselves off from reality because their underlings are afraid to deliver bad news.—
Donald Moynihan,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2026
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Huerta became one of Chavez’s fiercest defenders even after revelations about his autocratic ways became public — but what else was she supposed to do when people tied so much of her identity to him?—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2026
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Numerous Democratic lawmakers denounced Carr’s threat as a page straight out of an autocratic playbook.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
16 Mar. 2026
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The monarchist movement has not governed Iran since 1979, and its corrupt, despotic leader was overthrown in the revolution.—
Farah N. Jan,
The Conversation,
10 Mar. 2026
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My ability to complete Ballot during a genocide and despotic takeover hinged on confronting these uncomfortable truths.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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Nor was dominance by descendants of the Emerald Isle a case of monarchical nepotism.—
David McGrath,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
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Iran’s inclinations toward democracy date at least to 1905, when a revolution diminished monarchical power and established a parliament.—
John M. Crisp,
Mercury News,
13 Mar. 2026
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Enslaved by a tyrannical regime for nearly half a century, everyday Iranians long passionately for their freedom, as the rebellion earlier this year showed.—
Michael M. Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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Our founding fathers experienced the heavy hand of a tyrannical government.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Undemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undemocratic. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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