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Recent Examples of Big Brother
The couple's newest addition joins big brother Hudson, whom LeCroy shares with ex-husband Josh Hughes.
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Kayla Grant, People.com, 14 July 2025
Marsh became a mentor and a big brother figure: tough, but wise and full of grace.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 13 July 2025
The show will also airing Big Brother: Unlocked every other Friday beginning July 25, airing from 8 to 9 p.m. ET.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
And Clyde, settling into the big brother role, drops multiple toys at Marshall's feet—a chew toy and a pillow—both of which are almost as big as the puppy himself.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Competition was fostered in the Taylor household, and younger Ethan never got any reprieve on the basketball court from his big brother.
—Devon Henderson, Oc Register, 6 July 2025
Virginia Madsen is remembering her big brother Michael for his legacy off the screen following the actor’s death on Thursday at the age of 67.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 4 July 2025
Nashville Tennessean Good morning, friends, this is Tennessean columnist Brad Schmitt, in Cleveland, Ohio, right now to celebrate my big brother Scott's birthday.
—The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Midwest Premiere | Eleven-year-old Luna lives with her big brother, Julien, and her two adoptive fathers.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Kayla Grant, People.com, 14 July 2025
Marsh became a mentor and a big brother figure: tough, but wise and full of grace.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 13 July 2025
The show will also airing Big Brother: Unlocked every other Friday beginning July 25, airing from 8 to 9 p.m. ET.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
And Clyde, settling into the big brother role, drops multiple toys at Marshall's feet—a chew toy and a pillow—both of which are almost as big as the puppy himself.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Competition was fostered in the Taylor household, and younger Ethan never got any reprieve on the basketball court from his big brother.
—Devon Henderson, Oc Register, 6 July 2025
Virginia Madsen is remembering her big brother Michael for his legacy off the screen following the actor’s death on Thursday at the age of 67.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 4 July 2025
Nashville Tennessean Good morning, friends, this is Tennessean columnist Brad Schmitt, in Cleveland, Ohio, right now to celebrate my big brother Scott's birthday.
—The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Midwest Premiere | Eleven-year-old Luna lives with her big brother, Julien, and her two adoptive fathers.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brother
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Like many other industrialized nations, Japan in the 1930s turned to fascism and the construction of autarkic economic empires as a solution to the instabilities engendered by capitalist modernity.—
Waiyee Loh,
JSTOR Daily,
2 July 2025
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Amid the coming-out balls, proposals and a whopper of a divorce scandal, a more insidious theme emerged: the rise of fascism in Europe, and two of the sisters’ infatuation with it.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
24 June 2025
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His personal goal was surely the vanity of wanting to have never been wrong and the superpower of always being right—George Orwell speaks of the theological nature of totalitarians, who must constantly alter the past to claim to be always right in the present.—
Rebecca Solnit
April 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2021
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Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orange County Register,
17 Oct. 2020
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The dark side of the story was the murder by rabid Nazis — hangings and death by beating — of scores of fellow prisoners who were accused of faltering belief in Hitler and Nazism.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
10 July 2025
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The composition, a drum-heavy march overlayed with his own professions of Nazism, samples a 1935 Adolf Hitler speech.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
3 July 2025
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Religious freedom and freedom of speech make up the engine of self-government and form a bulwark against tyranny.—
Kristen Waggoner,
National Review,
5 July 2025
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Determined to liberate Panem, Katniss and her fellow rebels embark on a dangerous journey into the heart of the Capitol to save the nation from President Snow’s tyranny once and for all.—
Kelly Martinez Published,
EW.com,
5 July 2025
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Why don’t all the rich potentates, sheiks, oligarchs and MAGA dictators meet and fix it?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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With the pandemic, the year-round population of a once-seasonal resort town swelled with Manhattan refugees, those in the Trump orbit, and tech and finance potentates, many of them serious collectors like Ken Griffin and Steve Ross.—
Ben Widdicombe,
Vulture,
12 May 2025
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During the dictatorship, blackouts were used to control people.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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But if Trump’s Iran gamble turns out well and Iran’s theocratic dictatorship either crumbles or gives up its uranium enrichment program through diplomatic negotiations — a big if — Trump will be credited with having done something four previous presidents contemplated but ultimately failed to do.—
Andres Oppenheimer,
Miami Herald,
22 June 2025
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Increasingly, Big Tech is siding with autocrats, and the platforms’ designs help keep society under control.—
Lisa Schirch,
The Conversation,
7 July 2025
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This crisis destabilizes regions, fuels mass migration, and empowers anti-American autocrats.—
Kevin Sabet,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
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Brolin made his foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the warlord Thanos in the Avengers film series.—
Sarah Weldon,
EW.com,
7 June 2025
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Increasingly present in these actions are various groups with coercive power: current and former employees of state security agencies, Putin’s bodyguards, and such figures as Ramzan Kadyrov, the former warlord and close Putin ally who is head of the Chechen Republic and who has a personal army.—
ANDREI YAKOVLEV,
Foreign Affairs,
16 May 2025
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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