absolutist
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Now Musk, who has called himself a free-speech absolutist, while also vowing to take a hard line on child exploitation, faces growing calls for enforcement around the world and in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Carr, who has previously styled himself as a free speech absolutist, argues that stations have the right to pull the show if owners believe the content conflicts with community standards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
This evokes the absolutist rhetoric of Louis XIV’s worst sycophants, which Saint-Simon despised.
From Slate ● May 30, 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
She was accused of favouring revolutionary principles in the time of Elizabeth and James I., and of absolutist tendencies under James II. and his successors.
From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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