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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Critics argue the blue slip process is outdated and undemocratic, enabling political gridlock.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Critics argue the blue slip process is outdated and undemocratic, enabling political gridlock.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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Moraes was operating within a young and fragile constitution ratified in 1988 after years of autocratic rule, Brandao said, one that had failed so far to stem pervasive corruption in the country.—
Ron Kampeas,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Nov. 2025
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Trump has borrowed liberally (or perhaps more accurately, illiberally) from Orbán’s playbook for autocratic capture, and now Orbán is seeking favors in return.—
Kim Lane Scheppele,
Time,
6 Nov. 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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The statement had a clear connection to the musical's plot surrounding the tyrannical Wizard and Elphaba's rebellion.—
Patrick Gomez,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Nov. 2025
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Fitzpatrick, a preeminent historian of the Soviet Union, offers a concise account of Joseph Stalin’s rise to supreme power, his tyrannical rule, the black comedy surrounding his death, and his legacy in modern Russia.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Undemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undemocratic. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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