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Recent Examples of antidemocratic
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.
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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
At first, the war stopped the protest movement in its tracks, allowing the government to pursue many of its antidemocratic plans with far less scrutiny.
—Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024
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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
At first, the war stopped the protest movement in its tracks, allowing the government to pursue many of its antidemocratic plans with far less scrutiny.
—Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antidemocratic
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Language, in 1984, is violence by another means, an adjunct of the totalitarian strategies inflicted by the regime.Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
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King’s Running Man, published in 1982 and written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, was set in 2025 in an America under a totalitarian regime that uses violent game shows to placate the disenfranchised masses.Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2024
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By that logic, the Union is the oppressive force, and her movement is the real resistance.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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Debuting in 2014, Watch Dogs is an action-adventure game immersing players in the world of skilled hackers who use technology to combat oppressive forces controlling major cities across the world.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2024
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Expect plenty of hot takes, including a barrage of think pieces, seeing as, in this telling, the Wizard is an authoritarian leader using scapegoating to prey on — and stoke — people’s fears.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
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Yet, according to a February study by the Pew Research Center, 32% of Americans believe a military regime or an authoritarian leader would be a better way of governing the country.Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 13 Nov. 2024
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So, what advice would Steve Jobs have for those leaders who seek to emulate his autocratic ways?Greg McKenna, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2024
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With each passing week, new complaints about her autocratic administration come to light.Caleb Hofmann, National Review, 20 Nov. 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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Heston’s square-jawed nobility was rarely better exploited — not even a cameo from Jesus near the end can overshadow his magisterial heroism. 41.Will Leitch, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
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The actor, 28, plays Lucius in director Ridley Scott's sequel to 2000's Gladiator, picking up the story in a tyrannical Rome 16 years after Maximus (Russell Crowe) defeated the maniacal Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix).Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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The film, directed by Ridley Scott, follows Lucius (Paul Mescal) who must look to his past in order to free his home in Rome from the tyrannical rulers.Julia Teti, WWD, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Antidemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antidemocratic. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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