How to Use autocracy in a Sentence

autocracy

noun

• Yet this cooperation masks divisions among the world’s major autocracies.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2024
• 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
• And if that sounds to you like the opening moves of a budding autocracy...
  — Jack Moore, GQ, 15 Aug. 2017
• 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
• Trump, meanwhile, treated the prospect of autocracy as a big joke, and his supporters laughed along.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
• 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
• No one, in the media or elsewhere, is obsessed with Russia or with Vladimir Putin’s autocracy.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• There is nothing new in autocracies like Iran blaming others for their woes.
  — Nic Robertson, CNN, 8 Apr. 2020
• There’ll still be TV ratings, after all, in an autocracy.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Over and over, Putin has learned a singular lesson: crowds rarely come to the public square demanding more autocracy.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
• Democracies, accordingly, spend more on health than autocracies do, and are likely to preserve access to care even when the economy tanks.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024