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Recent Examples of Big Brother
And while the rivalry’s first few matchups (and decades) featured the Lightning as big brother kicking sand in the face of their younger sibling, the Panthers have now emerged as the powerhouse.
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Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
In September 2024, Brando appeared to have taken up motocross alongside his big brother, walking next to him in blue and red gear and a pair of gloves.
—Nicole Briese, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
The 14-year vet took on the role of Dick’s big brother.
—Jared Weiss, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
Tranquill is getting an assist in his fundraising efforts from his big brother.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 19 Mar. 2025
His breakout role came in Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, as a member of the bank-robber gang, the big brother Buck to Warren Beatty’s Clyde.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025
But the story of a youngest of two sons, with a legendary coach as a father and a superstar player as a big brother, striving to make his own mark is one that never gets old.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2025
But when little brother goes up against big brother, sometimes tactics and personnel become a bit less important.
—Arpon Basu, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
Gyeom was raised by his big brother, Ko Jun (Her Private Life’s Kim Jae-wook), following the deaths of their parents.
—Kayti Burt, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
In September 2024, Brando appeared to have taken up motocross alongside his big brother, walking next to him in blue and red gear and a pair of gloves.
—Nicole Briese, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
The 14-year vet took on the role of Dick’s big brother.
—Jared Weiss, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
Tranquill is getting an assist in his fundraising efforts from his big brother.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 19 Mar. 2025
His breakout role came in Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, as a member of the bank-robber gang, the big brother Buck to Warren Beatty’s Clyde.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025
But the story of a youngest of two sons, with a legendary coach as a father and a superstar player as a big brother, striving to make his own mark is one that never gets old.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2025
But when little brother goes up against big brother, sometimes tactics and personnel become a bit less important.
—Arpon Basu, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
Gyeom was raised by his big brother, Ko Jun (Her Private Life’s Kim Jae-wook), following the deaths of their parents.
—Kayti Burt, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brother
Noun
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Leading scholars, including historians of fascism, keep making alarming comparisons between WW2 and the present.—
Chris Doyle,
Hartford Courant,
2 Apr. 2025
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Stanley is an expert on fascism and the author of several books on the topic, including Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.—
Destinee Adams,
NPR,
1 Apr. 2025
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Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orange County Register,
17 Oct. 2020
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Under the unconditional patronage of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov rules his republic as a totalitarian, and has done so since taking power in May 2004, after his father, then President Akhmad Kadyrov, was assassinated.—
Layla Taimienova,
Foreign Affairs,
10 May 2017
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Many of these European scientists were already living in the U.S. after being displaced because of the turmoil of WWII or fleeing from Nazism and fascism.—
Chandelis Duster,
NPR,
29 Mar. 2025
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Musk has been accused of supporting antisemitic claims and insulting victims of Nazism.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC News,
8 Mar. 2025
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By settling with Trump, two of the firms that Trump targeted — Paul Weiss and Skadden Arps — have disgraced the legal community and turned their backs on their public duty to fight tyranny.—
Robert B. Reich,
Hartford Courant,
1 Apr. 2025
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The Trump deportations Gladys and Nelson Gonzalez case spotlights wrong federal priorities in deportation cases Deportation as theater is the wrong tactic History has shown us that when governments operate without checks and balances, tyranny follows.—
Nisha Whitehead,
Oc Register,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The cover of the first issue of The New Yorker, dated Feb. 21, 1925, carried no portraits of potentates or tycoons, no headlines, no come-ons.—
Christopher B. Daly,
The Conversation,
11 Feb. 2025
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Or were all those billionaire potentates in the Capitol Rotunda — seated in front of Trump’s Cabinet picks — asserting their social, economic and cultural hegemony?—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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The oligarchs in Hungary and Russia support the dictatorship with their monetary gains in return for being allowed to remain billionaires.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
4 Apr. 2025
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The biographical drama is inspired by the lives of Brazilian activist Eunice Paiva and her politician husband Rubens, who was murdered for his dissidence toward the military dictatorship of 1970s Brazil.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Eruption of warfare The army and RSF had at one point been in a fragile partnership together, jointly staging a coup in 2021 that derailed the transition from the Islamist rule of Omar al-Bashir, a longtime autocrat who was ousted in 2019.—
FOXNews.com,
FOXNews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Instead, the country has a would-be autocrat, with a Mt. Whitney-size grudge against California, seeking to establish himself as King Donald the First.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
The Mercury News,
22 Feb. 2025
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Aid workers are abandoning the country and violence has become rampant, with warlords terrorizing communities.—
Miami Herald Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Jan. 2025
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Some of the most notorious warlords and criminals who brought such misery to Kunduz — and ultimately did more to support the Taliban than defeat them — faded away without a final battle or trial.—
Azam Ahmed,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2024
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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