as in tyranny
a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power
a revolution that only ended up replacing one dictatorship with another
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Recent Examples of dictatorship
Assad was accused of ruling over a brutal dictatorship and overseeing human rights violations.
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Brad Dress, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2024
In Syria, overnight, rebel forces sweeping through the capital city of Damascus, putting an end to the brutal 24-year dictatorship of Bashar al Assad.
—ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
For many in Korea, the deeply unpopular president’s attempt to use martial law in response to political opposition and fierce media scrutiny called to mind dark memories of South Korea’s brutal military dictatorships of the 1980s.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
And although the country was under military dictatorship, the Paiva home, in walking distance of a paradisiacal beach, was something of a sanctuary.
—Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Brad Dress, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2024
In Syria, overnight, rebel forces sweeping through the capital city of Damascus, putting an end to the brutal 24-year dictatorship of Bashar al Assad.
—ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
For many in Korea, the deeply unpopular president’s attempt to use martial law in response to political opposition and fierce media scrutiny called to mind dark memories of South Korea’s brutal military dictatorships of the 1980s.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2024
And although the country was under military dictatorship, the Paiva home, in walking distance of a paradisiacal beach, was something of a sanctuary.
—Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dictatorship
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The collapse of the Assad regime, the tyranny in Damascus, offers great opportunity but also is fraught with significant dangers.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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The show is airing at a time when a lot of people are thinking about tyranny in a very concrete way.Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2024
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Under rules designed to prevent the instability that facilitated the rise of fascism in the 1930s, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier can only dissolve parliament and call an election if the chancellor calls, and loses, a confidence vote.Fox News, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2024
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Years later, in 2016, Viren sets out to write a book that treats that period in her life as an allegory for the rise of fascism in the United States.Tajja Isen, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2024
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The similarities among these places are real, because Russia, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, and, until now, Syria all belong to an informal network of autocracies.Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Assad may melt away into exile in a lavish row of Moscow dachas, and his hollow autocracy may crumble fast.Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Dictatorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dictatorship. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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