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totalitarian

[toh-tal-i-tair-ee-uhn] / toʊˌtæl ɪˈtɛər i ən /


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In the wake of World War II, Prague went from one totalitarian extreme to another.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

The constitutional court said back in 2001 that "as time passes, the relative importance of standpoints and positions of people in a totalitarian state certainly has not vanished, but it has definitely decreased".

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

“We effectively and legally abolished the Soviet totalitarian empire,” said Gennady Burbulis, Yeltsin’s top aide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

“The Handmaid’s Tale,” her prescient novel of totalitarian dictatorship, began with the group hanging scene, which was shifted to the back of the book.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

"I was living and working on the frontier between the totalitarian world and the West," he observed, "seeing both sides, and constantly angered by the contrast between the two."

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau




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