dictatorship

Franco was still alive, I was living in a dictatorship, so all those dreams were kind of absurd.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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

Balliu told AFP his father kept all the property titles for the land confiscated by the communist regime, despite the risks posed by the former dictatorship for keeping such documents.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

The contemporary Falangist movement in Spain explicitly borrows its name and iconography from Francisco Franco’s dictatorship.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

I wondered what he would do if his little dictatorship over the school ever crumbled.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

“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

The United Fruit Company, based in Boston, owned more than 550,000 acres of Guatemalan land, largely thanks to its deals with previous dictatorships.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026

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