How to Use autocracy in a Sentence

autocracy

noun

• Over the last 30 years, the forces of autocracy have revived all across the globe.
  — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2022
• But the years without autocracy have started to seem like a blip.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• Opponents have warned that the alliance between the Marcoses and the Dutertes could usher in a new era of autocracy in the Philippines.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2022
• Xi and Putin stood together, autocracy brothers ready to take on the West.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 13 Sep. 2022
• Two thousand twenty-two was not a good year for the world’s leading autocracies.
  — Lucan Ahmad Way, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
• As of now, 60 percent of the world is living under autocracy.
  — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2023
• A lot of what these Gulf autocracies are afraid of is 26-year-olds with Molotov cocktails knocking on the doors and saying, 'this country hasn't changed.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• In a sense, one version of this autocracy is replaced with another — and nothing changes much for the people who live at the whims of the ruling class.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2024
• But the goal of building a world safe for autocracy is putting China on a collision course with other nations.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
• But an approval of the law, some Jordanians claim, would expose the king’s reform promises as hollow – and put the country on the path to autocracy.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2023
• In that event, the conclusion people may draw is that China’s autocracy simply wasted three years’ worth of national resources to end up in the same place as the rest of the world.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2022
• Indeed, the coercive threat of Arab autocracies even reaches into the West.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• The system is fumbling in search of an answer to the big question: Can Xi’s China still manage the pairing of autocracy and capitalism?
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• History will not be kind to those in America who make apologies for Putin and praise Russian autocracy.
  — Julie Tsirkin, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
• In a collective act of joy as a form of resistance, hope flickers against the backdrop of increasing autocracy.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
• Like most of its counterparts across the region, the Egyptian government is an autocracy.
  — Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2023
• Europe shouldn’t care who attacked whom, or about the choice between democracy and autocracy.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
• China is an autocracy that has become only more closed off over recent years.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• But so long as the bloc continues to overlook, much less subsidize, autocracy within it, the whole European project is at stake.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2022
• While there are democracies and autocracies both, many countries have not chosen sides.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2023
• But Biden’s claim that autocracies have grown weaker faces a stark reality in some nations.
  — Michael Crowley, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• In death as in life, Ms. Albright evoked the eternal struggle between democracy and autocracy that flared again in her final days in a land not far from her own native country.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• That's why aligned himself with China, a similar autocracy in his eyes, so closely.
  — CBS News, 18 May 2022
• As the country slides back toward autocracy, that, too, is being quickly eroded.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• But the latest trade-off comes on the heels of Mr. Biden’s insistence that the contest between democracy and autocracy is of central importance in today’s world.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2022
• At the same time, Hungary will fall deeper into Orbán’s autocracy.
  — Zsuzsanna Szelényi, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2022
• The feud of Cato, Caesar, and their respective allies finally led to a civil war, at the end of which terrorized Romans had to accept autocracy.
  — Josiah Osgood, Time, 2 Dec. 2022
• In the battle between democracy and autocracy, democracies are rising to the moment, and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security.
  — Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2022
• Curtailing it, critics say, would risk setting Israel on a path to autocracy.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• Those who see the club and its toonamint as flaming examples of privilege, autocracy and bad cheese sandwiches look at the rules and see a dictatorship.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024