tyranny
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Around the seal, was the declaration, in Latin: “Resistance to Tyranny is Obedience to God.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
“Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given,” On Tyranny author Timothy Snyder notes.
From Slate • Jul. 8, 2025
But as James Tabery argues in his new book, Tyranny of the Gene, genetically customized drug regimens are not as effective or widely applicable as they are made out to be.
From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023
In “The Tyranny of Merit,” Harvard political philosophy professor Michael Sandel argued that the myth of American meritocracy and what he terms “credentialism” have been proved false, and that they’re unfair to boot.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2023
As the angry American objections turned into boycotts of British imports like paper and tea, a famous Englishman named Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote a short pamphlet called Taxation No Tyranny.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Vocabulary lists containing tyranny
The Declaration of Independence
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American History I
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