dictatorship
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In this heart-sore and compassionate investigation of unresolved pain, director Marialuisa Ernst makes a parallel between their plight and how her uncle’s disappearance during Argentina’s dictatorship affected her family.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
We're not going to end a dictatorship with poetry.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
In 1981 I learned the difference at ground level between dictatorship and totalitarianism.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
In almost every movie about life under a dictatorship, there is a scene where the security services order someone to “show me your papers.”
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026
But I wanted the dictatorship to be over so we could go home to live as a family again.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing dictatorship
You Can Say That Again: Dic and Dict
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President Trump's First Address to the United Nations General Assembly (2017)
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