dictatorial
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The AAU’s dictatorial control forced athletes into penury and enriched its leaders.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2025
A Guardian profile from last November notes that the Collinses now appear to be planning a dictatorial city-state for an anonymous wealthy donor, without at all mentioning that their Project Eureka has gone nowhere.
From Slate • Feb. 6, 2025
Applying his dictatorial power, Kuhn banned me from the locker rooms.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2024
He's just grown angrier and more dictatorial since.
From Salon • Oct. 10, 2024
But the eat-sleep routine I had begun in the hospital, and kept up under Mother’s dictatorial command, got the better of me.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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