dictatorship

Argentina’s defeat helped trigger the fall of the military dictatorship and return to democratic elections in 1983.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

"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

But his opinion quickly shifted, he says, once he witnessed how the children were treated, calling it a "dictatorship".

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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

There's a reason this protest streak runs so hot in South Korea, which only became a democracy in the late 1980s and is well-acquainted with political interference, dictatorships and military overreach.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026

The lifestyle doublespeak people used to survive under successive dictatorships in Eastern Europe came a little more easily to Poles, who had practiced it before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 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