dictatorship

Protesters shouted "Smells like a dictatorship", while police said some hurled bottles, fireworks and paint at officers as officers tried to take down the tents.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

He wound up fleeing to Spain, then in the grip of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, and spent the rest of his life in Iberian exile.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

Some protesters carried red carnations, a symbol of Portugal's 1974 revolution, evoking the peaceful military-led uprising that ended nearly five decades of dictatorship.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

The wealth of those who sit at the top of the secretive North Korean dictatorship is just as hard to pin down as the country's economic figures.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 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

“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

And thanks at least in part to those technologies, we’re seeing the tentative spread of democratic institutions in areas that have lived for years under dictatorships or near-dictatorships.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith