How to Use autocracy in a Sentence

autocracy

noun

• And if that sounds to you like the opening moves of a budding autocracy...
  — Jack Moore, GQ, 15 Aug. 2017
• Trump, meanwhile, treated the prospect of autocracy as a big joke, and his supporters laughed along.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
• The puzzle is not solved by crafting pseudoscientific tests for autocracy that give equal weight to harsh words and malign acts.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• No one, in the media or elsewhere, is obsessed with Russia or with Vladimir Putin’s autocracy.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• The governments that impose transfer restrictions are not just left-wing populists and autocracies.
  — Noel Johnston, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
• If a foreign firm invested in an unconstrained autocracy, the government might just seize its assets.
  — Noel Johnston, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
• Democracy and autocracy were once seen as two separate and distant worlds with little in common, and that the triumph of one weakened the other.
  — Cecilia Menjívar, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2024
• This was because of his lack of formal education, his few connections to the autocracy, and the seeming outlandishness of his ideas.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2017
• After decades of autocracy, Albania and its neighbors have now suffered through two decades of its exact opposite.
  — Edi Rama, WSJ, 11 July 2017
• Belarus is another recent example of the hot market for autocracies.
  — Ben Bartenstein, Bloomberg.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• The findings reveal an extra level of complexity to the dogs’ society, which otherwise looks like an autocracy.
  — Traci Watson, National Geographic, 5 Sep. 2017
• Over the last 30 years, the forces of autocracy have revived all across the globe.
  — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2022
• His verbal assaults are a long way from autocracy and the end of the rule of law.
  — Zachary Karabell, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2018
• But the years without autocracy have started to seem like a blip.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• And among those who do see it as possible, some fear a new kind of autocracy.
  — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2024
• Both clung to autocracy and suppressed would-be democrats.
  — WSJ, 27 Mar. 2019
• But the slide towards autocracy has pushed millions to stand up and demand a say in how their lives are governed.
  — Vivienne Walt, Time, 12 July 2018
• 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
• There is a risk that the country could become a crypto-autocracy.
  — Morgan Simon, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• The more that Democrats associate Trump and his team with a plan for autocracy, the more Americans will reject Trump.
  — Vaughan Emsley, New York Daily News, 5 July 2024
• The movement stalled after a coup ousted Nkrumah in 1966 and autocracy swept much of the continent.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 4 July 2020
• As of now, 60 percent of the world is living under autocracy.
  — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2023
• Face to face, but not side by side in the battle Biden has portrayed as democracy vs. autocracy.
  — ABC News, 20 June 2021
• 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
• They are being overrun by autocracies around the world.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
• This choice -- a choice between truth and lies, autocracy and democracy -- will be on the ballot in our states and dozens of others this November.
  — Shirley N. Weber and Jocelyn Benson, CNN, 18 Feb. 2022
• In their twin decisions that day, the nine justices reduced our future to a choice between two forms of autocracy.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024