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Recent Examples of antidemocratic
The first to learn about the antidemocratic effects of the new monopolization and its centrality to the neoliberal project.
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Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
More broadly, the deepening military ties between North Korea and Russia raise the larger question of what a collaboration of antidemocratic nations can accomplish – particularly as a destabilizing force.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2024
Since the 2010s, successive Israeli governments have actively chipped away at the country’s tenuous institutional framework in order to advance an exclusivist, expansionist, and increasingly antidemocratic Zionist state.
—Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024
Eventually, Congress could enact reforms that lessen some of our system’s antidemocratic distortions.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
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Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
More broadly, the deepening military ties between North Korea and Russia raise the larger question of what a collaboration of antidemocratic nations can accomplish – particularly as a destabilizing force.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2024
Since the 2010s, successive Israeli governments have actively chipped away at the country’s tenuous institutional framework in order to advance an exclusivist, expansionist, and increasingly antidemocratic Zionist state.
—Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024
Eventually, Congress could enact reforms that lessen some of our system’s antidemocratic distortions.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antidemocratic
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Syrian experts have told Fox News Digital that HTS seeks to impose a totalitarian Islamist regime on the population.Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Macrinus views Lucius as his gateway to totalitarian power.Malik Peay, Essence, 3 Dec. 2024
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Assad, while widely seen as an oppressive dictator and accused of using chemical weapons against his own people, was championed as a protector of Shiite Muslim sects, Christian communities, and other religious groups.Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Dec. 2024
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Both the Hatter and the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) get boilerplate tragic origins in a cluttered plot that’s drowned out by the hideous, oppressive visual effects.Josh Bell, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
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Solzhenitsyn’s exploration and critique of Soviet history and authoritarian power never ceased.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2024
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Not like those nasty authoritarian regimes (which actually do take in a lot of migrants in some cases, just ones whose diversity contribution isn’t as superficial).Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 28 Dec. 2024
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And some worry that HTS could slide into it's own kind of autocratic regime.NPR, NPR, 13 Dec. 2024
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The declaration of a battle between democracy and autocracy came with exemptions for autocratic partners in places like Riyadh and New Delhi.Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
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Here are five other movies about the magisterial singer-songwriter whose life and lyrics have forever expanded the contours of American music.Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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That’s part of the Dune trap — moviegoers for the 1984 version were greeted with a glossary of terminology — but so far, the show doesn’t have the magisterial wonder of the Villeneuve films to give it a boost.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
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What’s more, Rose engages in tyrannical behavior, causing June to flee and later exploiting Louise and thrusting her into the burlesque business against her will.Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
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Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius (Paul Mescal) is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical twin emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist.Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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“Antidemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antidemocratic. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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