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Aspiring autocrats in other countries have also made life difficult for universities.—
Nathaniel Rakich,
ABC News,
21 Jan. 2025 -
Once shunned by his fellow Arab autocrats, Bashar al-Assad was gradually regaining the dubious respectability Arab regimes afford one another.—
Ben Wedeman,
CNN,
30 Nov. 2024
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His fervor against communism, which was gaining a foothold in nearby Cuba, made the ruthless dictator and his son U.S. allies.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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In fact, past experience as a brutal dictator seems to be an important qualification, as both Khan Noonien Singh and Philippa Georgiou have made it past Section 31's vetting procedures.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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Be realistic, however: Talk such as Trump’s could be very useful to those expansionist, rapacious tyrants.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
15 Jan. 2025
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Sharon Stone plays a gunfighter who ends up in a town called Redemption, ruled with iron fist by a tyrant played by Gene Hackman.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2025
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My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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The franchise with seemingly more riches than an Egyptian pharaoh, the one that deferred $680 million of Ohtani’s salary for a decade, somehow found a way to spend less.—
Bryce Miller,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
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Most people in the military and police know that the socialist strongman lost the election, and would side with the people if the conditions were created for a showdown, an opposition spokesperson told the Miami Herald.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
11 Jan. 2025
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Deprivation provides fertile ground for the appeal of a strongman.—
Katherine Tai,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Jan. 2025
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The horror show of our impending political nightmare is casting a shadow over the New Year like another decrepit despot of suffering, the creeping bloodsucker of Nosferatu.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2025
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This dynamic is especially relevant for despots who do not intend to exit the scene peacefully when their tenure is up.—
Michael Poznansky,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Jan. 2025
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Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orange County Register,
17 Oct. 2020
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Under the unconditional patronage of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov rules his republic as a totalitarian, and has done so since taking power in May 2004, after his father, then President Akhmad Kadyrov, was assassinated.—
Layla Taimienova,
Foreign Affairs,
10 May 2017
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Our tech overlords—Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos—were there at the rotunda to support the forty-seventh President’s message.—
Naomi Fry,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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But this weekend felt a little extra on the nose, like the football overlords were pouring salt in the wound of Cowboys fans.—
Saad Yousuf,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Monocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monocrat. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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