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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

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

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

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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