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also régimes
as in governments
lawful control over the affairs of a political unit (as a nation)
the regime of the dictator collapsed with surprising abruptness
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Recent Examples of regimes
In addition to livestock, Russia has gifted other animals to North Korea, seemingly as a gesture of goodwill from Putin to Kim, symbolizing the growing ties between their regimes.
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Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
In both Syria and occupied Ukraine, Russia has deliberately backed or created regimes that have not merely sought to repress opponents but have also gone out of their way to demonstrate flagrant disregard for human rights and the rule of law, ideas that Putin claims belong to the past.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
These regimes want to rob people of any ability to plan for a different future, to convince people that their dictatorships are eternal.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
By Anne Applebaum As Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy, the collapse of autocratic regimes tends to happen gradually and then suddenly—slowly, and then all at once.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
The Stans have each signed security pacts with Türkiye, thus gradually displacing Moscow’s guarantees to the various regimes there.
—Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
Once shunned by his fellow Arab autocrats, Bashar al-Assad was gradually regaining the dubious respectability Arab regimes afford one another.
—Ben Wedeman, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
Williams was offered reassurance, primarily by Poles, that all that failure was a thing of the past, missteps made by previous incompetent regimes.
—Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2024
Yet nothing, not regimes, not leaders, lasts forever.
—Ben Wedeman, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
In both Syria and occupied Ukraine, Russia has deliberately backed or created regimes that have not merely sought to repress opponents but have also gone out of their way to demonstrate flagrant disregard for human rights and the rule of law, ideas that Putin claims belong to the past.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
These regimes want to rob people of any ability to plan for a different future, to convince people that their dictatorships are eternal.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
By Anne Applebaum As Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy, the collapse of autocratic regimes tends to happen gradually and then suddenly—slowly, and then all at once.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
The Stans have each signed security pacts with Türkiye, thus gradually displacing Moscow’s guarantees to the various regimes there.
—Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
Once shunned by his fellow Arab autocrats, Bashar al-Assad was gradually regaining the dubious respectability Arab regimes afford one another.
—Ben Wedeman, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
Williams was offered reassurance, primarily by Poles, that all that failure was a thing of the past, missteps made by previous incompetent regimes.
—Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2024
Yet nothing, not regimes, not leaders, lasts forever.
—Ben Wedeman, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
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“Regimes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regimes. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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