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Recent Examples of antidemocratic
This does not mean that efforts to delegitimize the results of the election—or the possibility that antidemocratic forces may try to mount a sustained attack on the electoral system—should be taken lightly.
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Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
The first to learn about the antidemocratic effects of the new monopolization and its centrality to the neoliberal project.
—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
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Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
The first to learn about the antidemocratic effects of the new monopolization and its centrality to the neoliberal project.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antidemocratic
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This seems like a smart, more nuanced take on history than the Civilization series has typically offered — less deterministic and one that emphasizes the cross-pollination of societies rather than raw totalitarian might.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
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The world has become a series of separate totalitarian quarantine zones and independent settlements, with a thriving black market and a rebel militia known as the Fireflies making life complicated for the survivors.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
7 Jan. 2025
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Jimmy Garoppolo profited from exposure to 49ers’ system The Commanders, thankfully shorn of the oppressive incompetence of former owner Daniel Snyder, were remade in a year by G.M. Adam Peters and coach Dan Quinn.—
Jerry McDonald,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
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The book, taking the form of a fable told in short, single paragraphs, scattershot swatches of wisdom, aphorisms and illustrations, has long been a manual for how to practice togetherness in the face of extreme, oppressive opposition.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them,
20 Jan. 2025
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Over the past decade, during which the authoritarian Law and Justice party has ruled in Poland, the Centre has served as a staunch defender of independent research.—
Natalia Romik / Madę by History,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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In this paradigm, the ideal worker is less like a corporate ally or a trusted collaborator and more like a subject of an authoritarian regime.—
Anna Wiener,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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For instance, a study examining various leadership styles found that transformational leadership positively correlates with enhanced organizational performance, while transactional and autocratic styles may have less favorable effects.—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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The other is going to build authoritarian, autocratic AI.—
Micah McCartney,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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My Heart Skipped, the magisterial prison drama A Prophet or the equally bleak Palme d’Or winner Dheepan.—
Julian Sancton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Jan. 2025
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His magisterial trilogy, The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, and The Third Reich at War, is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the forces that shaped the world between the end of World War I and 1945.—
Jim Kelly,
airmail.news,
10 Aug. 2024
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King Saran Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) will portray the tyrannical king who is also Amari and Inan's father.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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Despite these achievements, many scholars believe the king deserves his tyrannical reputation.—
Ellen Wexler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Antidemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antidemocratic. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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