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Noun
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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 -
This crisis destabilizes regions, fuels mass migration, and empowers anti-American autocrats.—
Kevin Sabet,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
Noun
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The message would then be clear: The Russian tyrant won’t break Ukraine.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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King George is a tyrant who is unfit to lead people.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
4 July 2025
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Talks between Israel and Syria are ongoing, which would have been unthinkable during the reign of former dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose partnership with Iran and insistence that Israel hand over the Golan Heights to Damascus in exchange for normalization nipped any détente in the bud.—
Daniel R. DePetris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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The uniform marks him as a firefighter from the old regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted in December 2024 after a nearly 14-year civil war.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
10 July 2025
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Now the ultimate challenge is here, and the stakes couldn't be higher because if the fighters from Earth aren't victorious, Outworld overlord Shao Kahn (Martyn Ford) will invade and take over the planet.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
4 July 2025
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As for what happens after that, well, the overlords at HBO have requested that reviews be spoiler-free.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
23 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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That’s the sort of language used by dictators — fascist, Communist or any Third World despot.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
18 June 2025
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But, in Armstrong’s universe, tech is never morally in the black, and the people who create it are no better than despots—inept ones, at that.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
4 June 2025
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The attacks on Putin mark a dramatic shift from Trump, who has spent years defending the Kremlin strongman.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
8 July 2025
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The problem was that in fighting markets in the way that foreign policy types fight democracy, strongmen, and in between, the U.S. foreign policy establishment robs countries of the essential cleansing and recovery that can only be preceded by allotment of failure.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
1 July 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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“Autarch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autarch. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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