autocrat
Example Sentences
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It is difficult for Spaniards to face up to the fact that they lived, largely uncomplaining, under an autocrat for 36 years.
Our analysts looked at the “indicators” we would see, overseas, when an autocrat rises and begins to take power, and what they saw was that those indicators are happening here.
From Salon
After all, a majority of the countries in that 11-member group — Russia, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — are presided over by autocrats.
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That’s been tried, and instead autocrats take over and crush dissent, boots on throats.
Every autocrat begins by silencing their country’s artists — because laughter is the enemy of fear.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
