as in tyranny
a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power
a revolution that only ended up replacing one dictatorship with another
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Recent Examples of dictatorship
Brazil has a record of trying to forgive and forget: An amnesty law passed during the military dictatorship meant that no one has ever been held accountable for the regime’s abuses.
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Constance Malleret, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
The digital age thrives on collaboration, not dictatorship.
—Nono Bokete, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
The film makes more than a token effort to explore the material and psychological realities of life under fascist rule, and the transformation of a charming agrarian utopia into an austere military dictatorship.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Also nominated in Best Actress, this adaptation of the 2015 memoir of the same name is the story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), a woman struggling through the aftermath of her husband’s disappearance by the Brazilian dictatorship.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
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Constance Malleret, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
The digital age thrives on collaboration, not dictatorship.
—Nono Bokete, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
The film makes more than a token effort to explore the material and psychological realities of life under fascist rule, and the transformation of a charming agrarian utopia into an austere military dictatorship.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Also nominated in Best Actress, this adaptation of the 2015 memoir of the same name is the story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), a woman struggling through the aftermath of her husband’s disappearance by the Brazilian dictatorship.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dictatorship
Noun
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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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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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There are good reasons to believe that a permanent slide into autocracy is harder in the U.S. than in those countries.—
Jennifer Victor,
The Conversation,
26 Mar. 2025
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Investors are already fleeing as the county grows more authoritarian, and a slide into full autocracy will hardly bring them back.—
Gonul Tol,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Dictatorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dictatorship. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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