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Recent Examples of tyrannize
As a simple but stable system of cryptographic property rights, Bitcoin is a digital, modern-day solution to the problems the U.S. Constitution sought to solve: protecting us from humans who seek to tyrannize us.
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Edan Yago, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Saddam Hussein tyrannized Iraq for 12 years after his troops were routed in Kuwait in 1991.
—Daniel Treisman, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2022
The mechanics of Shakespeare’s plot — unfolding first in rigid, tyrannized Sicilia and then in pastoral, sunnier Bohemia — hinge on our rooting for the characters Leontes so cruelly censures.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
In the process, these majority ethnic coalitions tyrannize and marginalize other groups, particularly those that are not members of the coalition.
—John Mukum Mbaku, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2021
In Portsmouth, Virginia, cops have been systematically using their state power to tyrannize political enemies.
—Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2020
In such societies, counters Madison, a majority will tyrannize the minority.
—Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2020
Edan Yago, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Saddam Hussein tyrannized Iraq for 12 years after his troops were routed in Kuwait in 1991.
—Daniel Treisman, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2022
The mechanics of Shakespeare’s plot — unfolding first in rigid, tyrannized Sicilia and then in pastoral, sunnier Bohemia — hinge on our rooting for the characters Leontes so cruelly censures.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
In the process, these majority ethnic coalitions tyrannize and marginalize other groups, particularly those that are not members of the coalition.
—John Mukum Mbaku, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2021
In Portsmouth, Virginia, cops have been systematically using their state power to tyrannize political enemies.
—Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2020
In such societies, counters Madison, a majority will tyrannize the minority.
—Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tyrannize
Verb
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First, students are primed through exposure to narratives that depict a binary world of oppressors and oppressed.—
Kevin Waldman,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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Remember Mandela, who rose from the ashes of prison to become the president of South Africa, a country that had oppressed him and his people for decades.—
Bea L. Hines,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Patient possession from deeper positions was on show on Saturday as West Ham dominated the ball for long periods in the first half, slowly gaining territory without truly threatening Bournemouth’s penalty area — as shown by The Athletic’s match dashboard below.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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On the flipside, global competition for access to finite resources and to dominate the next generation of growth industries—clean energy, grid resilience, electric vehicles, sustainable food solutions—is redrawing supply chains, trade agreements, and geopolitics.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The future of clean energy won’t be dictated by those who care more about power than prosperity.—
Rob Sisson and Danielle Franz,
Boston Herald,
4 Apr. 2025
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Beijing or Berlin does not dictate these choices; they are made in boardrooms and households across America.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
Verb
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When her father Philip dies, Rachel’s domineering mother, Carol, played by Ormond (see first look image), driven by the belief that Philip’s lifeless body will revive itself, forces her daughter to live with the corpse.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
13 June 2023
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Standing next to her is Lara, the biological mother, a domineering woman dressed in expensive designer clothes.—
Jennifer Wilson,
The New Republic,
8 May 2023
Verb
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Aside from crime, the advisory spotlights the dangers around jet skiing and boating in the Bahamas, noting that the boating industry is not well regulated and some watercraft are not licensed, which has led to injury and death.—
Katie Nadworny,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Apr. 2025
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Public health groups had already sued the FDA for not moving fast enough to review the products after the agency, in 2016, finalized rules for regulating them under the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Tyrannize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tyrannize. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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