oligarchic
Example Sentences
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Imperial overreach comes home: financial crisis, a Spartan fleet off the coast of Attica and an oligarchic coup in Athens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
“Some of them had oligarchic influences in the past, but so what, they got through it, and saw this as an opportunity to reset their image in an era of criticism of fossil fuels.”
From Washington Post ● May 3, 2022
We should rethink who makes design, engineering, social, and political decisions regarding the development and roll-out of technology, in ways that are win-win, rather than ones that elevates oligarchic gain over everyone else.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2020
Thus, between 405 BCE — 338 BCE, the old order of the hoplites and republics atrophied, replaced by oligarchic councils or tyrants in the poleis and stronger, tax-supported states.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
