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absolutist





NOUN
authoritarian
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The looser controls on Grok, and Musk’s absolutist stance on free speech, have made it a more attractive choice to the Pentagon.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

Despite her reputation in some quarters as a free-speech absolutist — a stroke of branding genius on her part — she is in fact an anti-speech activist.

From Salon Dec. 22, 2025

This evokes the absolutist rhetoric of Louis XIV’s worst sycophants, which Saint-Simon despised.

From Slate May 30, 2025

Describing the judgement as an "unreasonably absolutist definition of free speech", the university warned that the ruling left institutions facing "opposing and irreconcilable duties" which rendered them "powerless to prevent abusive, bullying and harassing speech".

From BBC Mar. 25, 2025

Of course it was an orthodox and an almost rabid glorification of “sound” absolutist principles.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various




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