dictatorship

"I just don't think they're ready yet. You know, it's very new. We took them out of a dictatorship, and we're getting along great with the government," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

“It was a dictatorship at the door,” Andy Warhol once quipped, “and a democracy on the floor.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

But other defectors tell the BBC that despite the restrictions, K-pop has cut through in Kim Jong Un's stifling dictatorship.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The contemporary Falangist movement in Spain explicitly borrows its name and iconography from Francisco Franco’s dictatorship.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

Then nothing, not even a dictatorship, can take away your liberty.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

“In 5,000 years, if you look back, there have been dictatorships, monarchies, autocrats, republics. Nothing is newer or more modern.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

But at the same time, even under the cruelest dictatorships, it has still managed to produce fine literature.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

The United Fruit Company owned over 550,000 acres of Guatemalan land, largely thanks to its deals with previous dictatorships.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026

He pointed to Brazil and South Korea, which have histories of dictatorships and which in recent years have rejected anti-democratic threats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

I would have consented to live under the most rigid type of dictatorship, for I felt that dictatorships, too, defined the use of men, however degrading that use might be.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright