autocracy
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Back then, Florida’s student government had a reputation of operating a little like an autocracy.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
While news organizations are in many ways top-down institutions—newsroom editors exercise an autocracy quite rare in other fields—in reality they are bottom-up, their product shaped by those who wield the digital pens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
The Gbagbos protested against Houphouët-Boigny's autocracy, which lasted for 33 years, calling for multi-party democracy.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
Now the formally restless Susan Choi turns to social realism in her beguiling if baggy “Flashlight,“ mapping a family’s journey among political autocracy and personal pain, from Midwestern cornfields to the Pacific Rim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
Although his reign may have begun idealistically, Cahokia quickly became an autocracy; in an Ozymandiac extension of his ego, the supreme leader set in motion the construction projects.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Amid all this, countries of the Global South—especially Brazil, India and South Africa—position themselves between the West and the Eastern autocracies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Though in fairness, the app has stood firm against other censorship orders from autocracies like Myanmar and Russia, the latter of which temporarily banned the app in 2018.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024
Founded in 1967, the often-unwieldy collective of democracies, autocracies and monarchies has been held together for decades by bedrock principles of non-interference in each other’s domestic affairs and consensus-based decision-making.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2023
And yet their power makes the tools alluring to intelligence services, militaries and law enforcement agencies in democracies and autocracies alike.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
The worst was, that the growing autocracies found support in the divisions which had grown within the cities themselves.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
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To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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