How to Use authoritarian in a Sentence

authoritarian

adjective

• Even from exile, the risks of a journalist reporting on an authoritarian state are considerable.
  — Kate Linthicum, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2022
• Parents raised in authoritarian or neglectful households may struggle to break away from ingrained beliefs about discipline and respect.
  — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 2 Dec. 2024
• Now, one year later, the authoritarian government is continuing to crack down on citizens speaking out against bitcoin.
  — Daniel Alvarenga, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2022
• First and foremost, is the theme of the fear of an authoritarian world.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2024
• Trump has acted in ways that were despotic and authoritarian at times, but this takes the cake.
  — Ashley Pratte Oates, CNN, 5 Dec. 2022
• And from the point of view of Putin's authoritarian regime, this is certainly a problem.
  — TIME, 8 Jan. 2024
• Fox said the post was a commentary on the authoritarian nature of the movement.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2022
• At the same time, Vucic grew more open in his courtship of the authoritarian leaders of Russia, Hungary and China.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• In an authoritarian state, neighborhood trust is a thing of the past.
  — WIRED, 1 Nov. 2022
• The rhetoric has stoked alarm among critics that a second Trump term could usher in a wave of authoritarian revenge.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
• And as the 1980s wore on, the group caused its own downfall, becoming more authoritarian.
  — Hannah E. Meyers, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
• If DeSantis makes it to the White House, life will get a lot more expensive and authoritarian too.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
• In Belarus, red and white are the colors of the protest movement against the country’s authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko.
  — Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• Seen in that light, slapping a charge of espionage on a journalist is one of the more Orwellian tools in the authoritarian playbook.
  — Bill Kovarik, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2023
• Under Xi, China has grown more authoritarian at home and more assertive on the world stage.
  — John Hudson, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• The work of the forensics teams also relies on the fact that authoritarian regimes frequently kept detailed records of their crimes.
  — Benjamin P. Russell, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• What the speech raised is the potent question: Can the Democrats successfully frame the 2024 election around the quest to preserve our democracy from the authoritarian whims of Trump and his rightwing clones?
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2023
• In the end, the leaderless movement, clustered in pockets across the country, was no match for the keepers of Iran’s authoritarian system.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• The Palace, about a year inside an authoritarian regime, and Trust, an adaptation of Hernan Diaz's novel of the same name.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 28 Sep. 2022
• The good thing about being an authoritarian leader is that there are few people to dissent.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• The protesters have filled the streets of Iran shouting her name and calling out the Iranian regime's authoritarian rules.
  — ABC News, 1 Feb. 2023
• This time around, Trump, who is known for his penchant for authoritarian leaders, has continued to praise Xi along the campaign trail.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
• The three have spent years behind bars in Iran's Evin prison, infamous for its human rights abuses and as a symbol of the regime's authoritarian power.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2023
• This song speeds past the worst aspect of authoritarian media that chews up and spits out so much popular culture.
  — Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2023
• Critics accuse him of leading the country down down a path of authoritarian rule.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2024
• Thousands piled into the Facebook thread to call them fake fans, many pointing out the anti-authoritarian, left-leaning themes of the band’s music.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2023
• The authoritarian system is formed in such a way that without a very clear command from the leadership, people don’t do anything.
  — Catherine Belton, Shane Harris and Greg Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2023
• Boye was not the only writer of her time to be interested by the idea that authoritarian states might draw their power in part from the suppression of women.
  — Talya Zax, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
• Dissidents are born out of this choice: either assert their authentic selves or accept the authoritarian’s mafioso bargain, safety and protection in exchange for keeping one’s head down.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Dec 2024