absolutist

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The looser controls on Grok, and Musk’s absolutist stance on free speech, have made it a more attractive choice to the Pentagon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

This evokes the absolutist rhetoric of Louis XIV’s worst sycophants, which Saint-Simon despised.

From Slate • May 30, 2025

Describing the judgement as an "unreasonably absolutist definition of free speech", the university warned that the ruling left institutions facing "opposing and irreconcilable duties" which rendered them "powerless to prevent abusive, bullying and harassing speech".

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2025

Final fatal blows to these absolutist regimes were delivered by the American, French and Haitian revolutions that erupted between 1776 and 1804.

From Salon • Sep. 20, 2024

They were developed and strengthened in the following years of reaction, when many a progressive group went to seek compromises with the absolutist forces.

From Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich