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Recent Examples of Big Brother
Next up is Jean Pronovost, who played 753 games for the Penguins and was once a Lady Byng finalist, but didn’t get invited to join his big brother Marcel in the Hall.
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Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
Golden joins big brother Bronze, 2, and big sister Sterling, 3, making the Mahomes household even livelier.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
Its big brothers can carry twice the payload for several times the distance, but anything able to put a grenade through a window a mile away can still be useful in combat.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Fans also noticed Gelo’s big brother, Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball, is credited as a songwriter.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 7 Jan. 2025
Stephen Baldwin is teasing a possible appearance on big brother Alec Baldwin’s new show.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
The brothers all but operate as a single unit, with Taha being all too happy to play big brother to young Alisan.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
That's how Irvine ended up capturing the sweet interaction between the shopping mall Santa and her two sons, Thomas and his big brother, Bennett.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
As the offense ran onto the field, doubt kept its distance from Daniels’ surrogate big brother.
—Ben Standig, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
Golden joins big brother Bronze, 2, and big sister Sterling, 3, making the Mahomes household even livelier.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
Its big brothers can carry twice the payload for several times the distance, but anything able to put a grenade through a window a mile away can still be useful in combat.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Fans also noticed Gelo’s big brother, Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball, is credited as a songwriter.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 7 Jan. 2025
Stephen Baldwin is teasing a possible appearance on big brother Alec Baldwin’s new show.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
The brothers all but operate as a single unit, with Taha being all too happy to play big brother to young Alisan.
—Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
That's how Irvine ended up capturing the sweet interaction between the shopping mall Santa and her two sons, Thomas and his big brother, Bennett.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
As the offense ran onto the field, doubt kept its distance from Daniels’ surrogate big brother.
—Ben Standig, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brother
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Juan Bernabe, 56, was already a controversial figure at the club for his open support of fascism, but his up-and-down career came to an end after Sunday’s Instagram posts, The Athletic reported.Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2025
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The series tells the story of the birth of fascism in Italy and the rise to power of Benito Mussolini.Billboard Italy, Billboard, 13 Jan. 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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The United States withdrew its forces from Europe while demanding debt payments from allies, who passed the costs on to Germany, worsening its financial turmoil and hastening its slide into Nazism.Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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The murder of six million Jews—and the question of whether the British authorities could have done more to save them—complicates an otherwise ennobling story of the country’s heroic stand against Nazism, its finest hour.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
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Annotated Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language declared Americans free from the tyranny of British institutions and their vocabularies.JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
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Transferring that depth to television, particularly to predominantly Black characters in a Caribbean country, especially one as fabled as Jamaica, to confront the tyranny of homophobia while also sustaining a conversation with the U.K. about its tainted legacy of colonialism, is bold and visionary.Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
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A number of sports potentates will be making the Idaho scene, at a moment when tens of billions of dollars are changing hands in pursuit of ever-valuable rights.Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 10 July 2024
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By cracking the whip on local potentates, the party bolsters its already substantial public support and reinforces the power of central institutions.Dali Yang, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
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Since the peaceful revolution against the Assad dictatorship in 2012, the United States found ways to advance change.Brandon Hoffman, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
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For his part, Rubio kept a serious stance while making his case for the new role and speaking out against dictatorship regimes, but also, kept several exchanges with senators lighter at times.Claudia Grisales, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
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Further, America’s adversaries—China, Russia, Iran and North Korea—are collaborating more closely than ever in an axis of autocrats which enable them to combine strengths in their collective goal of weakening the United States.Michael Brown, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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But its core themes—the corrupting allure of control, the dangers of putting the future in the hands of greedy autocrats—align closely with those of the original Dune novels.Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
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The country has become a magnet for warlords, arms dealers, human traffickers, poachers, drug syndicates and generals wanted by international courts.Natasha Frost, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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My wife, who is not an international money launderer or mercenary warlord, was turned down for a savings account with a UK bank last year because her driving license had expired.David G.W. Birch, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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