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

In these environments, oligarchic dynasties and familial networks create and sustain privileged microclimates of abundance — though mostly for their own exclusive benefit.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024

This would all be shockingly meritocratic for such an oligarchic sport, even if the suits are just trying to avoid yet another antitrust lawsuit.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2021

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, 2020

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