oligarchic
Example Sentences
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The courtroom served as a kind of leveler in an increasingly oligarchic age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
Yet the absence of an ideology among the oligarchs gives to oligarchic rule a flexibility lacking in autocratic forms of power.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 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
In an oligarchic near-future United States, a high school valedictorian asks “impertinent” questions about the government, leading to her “reeducation” in 1959 Wisconsin, 80 years in the past.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2018
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
