How to Use autocratic in a Sentence

autocratic

adjective

• During the long, autocratic reign of Moammar Khadafy, floods came and went, but the dams stood.
  — James Glanz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• During the long, autocratic reign of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, floods came and went, but the dams stood.
  — James Glanz, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023
• And the financiers had lost much of their Sudanese income with the fall of the autocratic leader Omar al-Bashir.
  — Justin Scheck, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• Yet the road to a less autocratic Turkey remains rocky.
  — Jillian Kay Melchior, wsj.com, 12 May 2023
• But that is only the most vivid sign of how autocratic practices are making inroads around the world.
  — Michael Crowley, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• But its influence—and that of its autocratic leader, Elon Musk—has come at a cost.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 26 July 2023
• Twelve months later, parts of Ukraine lie in ruins, but autocratic leaders around the world are now the ones that are faltering.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 6 Jan. 2023
• These young artists, the future impressionists, loathed the autocratic regime of Napoleon III.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• The real Oz Nelson knew how to be tough and persuasive instead of tough and autocratic.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
• But the long-term agendas of thugocrats face obstacles at home and abroad despite the autocratic ways of leaders even in Moscow and Beijing and Tehran.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2022
• Next month’s election is a crucial test of whether the country’s autocratic ruling party can be checked at the ballot box.
  — Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2023
• For years, autocratic regimes have been in a race to heighten those walls, as their citizens develop taller and taller ladders.
  — WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
• Cambodia is set for its first transfer of power in almost four decades — to the son of its autocratic prime minister.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• The problems have sparked debate among economists about whether Xi’s increasingly autocratic regime is to blame, and what a major slowdown could mean for the rest of the world.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
• Sudan is also home to refugees from conflicts and autocratic rule in countries such as Eritrea, Ethiopia and Syria.
  — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• Among the 24 ancient cities in the study, the cities that had more collective forms of governance tended to remain in power longer, sometimes by thousands of years more than the more autocratic ones.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2023
• While the autocratic Chef (Lee R. Sellars) attempts to maintain order with fits of rage and threats of dismissal, the scene is continually on the verge of chaos.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
• Even autocratic regimes feel the need for election victory, if not as a demonstration of support, then at least as a show of loyalty.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2024
• To many, the idea of standing up to Robert Mugabe’s autocratic political leadership was too perilous, the risk too great.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
• Yet Russia’s autocratic regime does not need to be the United States’ implacable foe.
  — Thomas Graham, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• But Russian President Vladimir Putin is one of the world’s most ruthless autocratic leaders.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• Right on cue, the autocratic leader is trying to hamstring the opposition.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2023
• The autocratic leaders of China and Russia seem to be withdrawing further into the same corner.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022
• The abandonment of autocratic self-restraint by Xi and CCP leadership was not inevitable.
  — Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2023
• Their autocratic ways happen without much input or discussion from the people in the middle of the company.
  — Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
• The price that Europe is now paying for its reliance on oil and gas from another autocratic regime, in Moscow, has further highlighted the risks of such an approach.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2022
• Trump has long been accused by his critics of having autocratic tendencies and a lack of respect for the US Constitution.
  — Kevin Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
• King is now in the hands of a notoriously autocratic and opaque one party regime that regards the United States as a mortal enemy.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 19 July 2023
• This is meant to illustrate the company’s pledge to never sell to autocratic governments such as Russia and North Korea, says Reil.
  — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 20 July 2023
• The temple nods back in its seven spires, the number of sheikhdoms in this autocratic federation on the Arabian Peninsula.
  — Jon Gambrell, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024