as in dictatorship
a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power
a popular uprising replaced that nation's tyranny with freedom and democracy
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Recent Examples of tyranny
Still, would Cuarón or his contemporaries have survived the creative tyranny of the Selznick-Goldwyn-Zanuck era?
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Peter Bart, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
Yet many of its great features have been eviscerated -- not by bouts of insurrection or spasms of tyranny, but by erosion, innovation, and institutional decay.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 24 Oct. 2024
Their desire for freedom from oppression meant ensuring people could speak their minds, pursue their dreams and live without fear of tyranny.
—Peggy O’Neal Faith Matters, arkansasonline.com, 19 Oct. 2024
Finally, the opportunity has come for you to be liberated from its tyranny.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
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Peter Bart, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
Yet many of its great features have been eviscerated -- not by bouts of insurrection or spasms of tyranny, but by erosion, innovation, and institutional decay.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 24 Oct. 2024
Their desire for freedom from oppression meant ensuring people could speak their minds, pursue their dreams and live without fear of tyranny.
—Peggy O’Neal Faith Matters, arkansasonline.com, 19 Oct. 2024
Finally, the opportunity has come for you to be liberated from its tyranny.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tyranny
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His thirty-two-year hard-line dictatorship witnessed political assassinations and the violent suppression of human rights by his army.Hung Duong, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
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The peace plan tried to secure Arab recognition of Israel’s 1967 conquests, in exchange for more American aid and arms sales to the brutal Egyptian, Saudi and Emirati dictatorships.Caise D. Hassan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2024
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Forcible suppression of opposition is a key component in fascism.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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The Parisian Surrealists emerged amid the fresh traumas of World War I, the alienation of rapid industrialization, and the horrors of rising fascism.Jack Denton, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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Although Adolf Hitler met his road to perdition, Joseph Stalin survived and extended his despotism.Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024
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His thug military’s attacks — and those of his thug street enforcers known as colectivos — on Venezuelans who’ve taken to the streets to protest his Gómez-ish despotism?Tim Padgett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
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To start a new movement, Tunisia’s civil society and its politicians must rebuild trust with the people and convince them, fundamentally, that democracy is more likely than autocracy to bring about the economic growth and stability the country needs.Sarah E. Yerkes, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
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Yet this cooperation masks divisions among the world’s major autocracies.Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2024
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Mann understood the appeal of totalitarianism early on.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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In 1984, Apple released a TV ad suggesting that its new Macintosh would topple Orwellian totalitarianism.Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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The political absolutism of Sartre was a way of asserting fearlessness: Nothing, not even the presence of the U.S. Army, can intimidate me!Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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But by the early seventeenth century the sovereigns of Britain, France, and elsewhere had begun to erode this medieval constitutionalism in favor of a new absolutism.Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
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“Tyranny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tyranny. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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