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Recent Examples of antidemocratic
The first to learn about the antidemocratic effects of the new monopolization and its centrality to the neoliberal project.
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Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
More broadly, the deepening military ties between North Korea and Russia raise the larger question of what a collaboration of antidemocratic nations can accomplish – particularly as a destabilizing force.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2024
Since the 2010s, successive Israeli governments have actively chipped away at the country’s tenuous institutional framework in order to advance an exclusivist, expansionist, and increasingly antidemocratic Zionist state.
—Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024
Eventually, Congress could enact reforms that lessen some of our system’s antidemocratic distortions.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
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Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
More broadly, the deepening military ties between North Korea and Russia raise the larger question of what a collaboration of antidemocratic nations can accomplish – particularly as a destabilizing force.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2024
Since the 2010s, successive Israeli governments have actively chipped away at the country’s tenuous institutional framework in order to advance an exclusivist, expansionist, and increasingly antidemocratic Zionist state.
—Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024
Eventually, Congress could enact reforms that lessen some of our system’s antidemocratic distortions.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antidemocratic
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Syrian experts have told Fox News Digital that HTS seeks to impose a totalitarian Islamist regime on the population.Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Macrinus views Lucius as his gateway to totalitarian power.Malik Peay, Essence, 3 Dec. 2024
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Earlier this year, two teenagers filed a class-action lawsuit against a Kentucky youth detention center and its administrators, claiming that they were subjected to oppressive isolation, denied basic hygiene, showers, and medications, and forced to listen to a toddler song.Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
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Based on the classic Stephen King novel written under pen name Richard Bachman, The Running Man is set in an oppressive future where the government controls the media.Justin Kroll, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
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If the impeachment is confirmed by the Constitutional Court, Yoon will become the fourth South Korean president — out of eight total — to be jailed or ousted since the nation democratized in 1987 after decades of authoritarian rule.Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, Georgia’s relations with the EU have deteriorated sharply in recent months as Brussels has alleged that the government had resorted to authoritarian measures and adopted pro-Russian stances.Christian Edwards, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
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The declaration of a battle between democracy and autocracy came with exemptions for autocratic partners in places like Riyadh and New Delhi.Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
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And some worry that HTS could slide into it's own kind of autocratic regime.NPR, NPR, 13 Dec. 2024
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Here are five other movies about the magisterial singer-songwriter whose life and lyrics have forever expanded the contours of American music.Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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That’s part of the Dune trap — moviegoers for the 1984 version were greeted with a glossary of terminology — but so far, the show doesn’t have the magisterial wonder of the Villeneuve films to give it a boost.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
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Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius (Paul Mescal) is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical twin emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist.Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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This has created a chain reaction throughout the Middle East of all those who want to be free from this oppressive and tyrannical regime.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Antidemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antidemocratic. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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