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absolutist





NOUN
authoritarian
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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

Saint-Simon knew that when kings embrace their own flattery, they open themselves to manipulation, and the writer viewed Louis XIV as an illusory absolutist who was in fact controlled by fawning scoundrels.

From Slate May 30, 2025

Adam Candeub is a law professor and a former advisor to President Trump, who describes himself as a free speech absolutist.

From BBC Oct. 12, 2024

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

Subsequently, when the Protestant hierarchy was forcibly established in Sweden, matters were much complicated by the absolutist tendencies of Gustavus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various




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