absolutist

Example Sentences

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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

But he lifted the ban after he took over, saying at the time that he was "against censorship that goes far beyond the law", and labelled himself a "free speech absolutist".

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2024

Despite Thomas’ well-known penchant for absolutist, first-principle opinions, however, even he stopped short of endorsing the theory Cannon adopts, noting with uncharacteristic tentativeness that he was “not sure” whether Smith’s office was “established by law.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2024

Of the reactionists Bonald is extremely royalist, and carries out in his L�gislations primitives somewhat the same patriarchal and absolutist theories as our own Filmer, but with infinitely greater Maistre. genius.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various