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Recent Examples of undemocratic
The sentence was intentionally undemocratic, deliberately cruel and over-the-top.
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Don McKellar, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
Critics argue the blue slip process is outdated and undemocratic, enabling political gridlock.
—Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
Cleaver and other Kansas City lawmakers have excoriated the effort, framing it as a brazen and undemocratic power grab that would dampen the voting power of Kansas City and its nearby suburbs.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 22 Aug. 2025
Democrats responded that the unprecedented mid-decade gerrymander effort is totally undemocratic.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025
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Don McKellar, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
Critics argue the blue slip process is outdated and undemocratic, enabling political gridlock.
—Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
Cleaver and other Kansas City lawmakers have excoriated the effort, framing it as a brazen and undemocratic power grab that would dampen the voting power of Kansas City and its nearby suburbs.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 22 Aug. 2025
Democrats responded that the unprecedented mid-decade gerrymander effort is totally undemocratic.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undemocratic
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Among the consequences will be a shrinking of the civic arena, which could create an opening for nondemocratic actors such as China and Russia to expand their regional influence.—
Omar G. Encarnación,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Sep. 2025
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What happens in nondemocratic countries One way to see how important a robust civil society can be is to look at what happens in countries that do not have one.—
Christopher Justin Einolf,
The Conversation,
26 Sep. 2025
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The autocratic czarist regime ruled with an iron hand and suppressed opposition through censorship, banishment, and executions.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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As with previous generations of Russians under autocratic rule, from tsarism to Soviet communism, there was no purpose in worrying about the causes of the storm.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Oct. 2025
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Especially right now, when most of whatever happens next would seem to be determined by arbitrary and despotic centers of earthly power.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
7 Oct. 2025
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The emergency has become the rule, transforming exceptional powers into the ordinary machinery of despotic governance.—
Beatriz Magaloni,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Sep. 2025
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Now, with talk of overturning the 22nd Amendment and remaking the presidency in the image of a monarchical personal cult, that idea is being shredded.—
Dan Perry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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These achievements made the United States the political model of the liberal state, which displaced the monarchical dynasties of Europe in the nineteenth century, then rescued Western civilization from the totalitarian despotisms of Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union in the twentieth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Players land on the planet Kairos, which is being ruled by a tyrannical dictator called the Timekeeper.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
13 Oct. 2025
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Scott's most recent projects include the 2024 sequel Gladiator II, which starred Paul Mescal as the son of Russell Crowe's Maximus, who squares off against tyrannical twin emperors.—
Jessica Wang,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Undemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undemocratic. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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