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dictatorship

[dik-tey-ter-ship, dik-tey-] / dɪkˈteɪ tərˌʃɪp, ˈdɪk teɪ- /


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As for the nominal head of the dictatorship, Gabrielle Weiniger and David Charter report for The Times of London:

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

In almost every movie about life under a dictatorship, there is a scene where the security services order someone to “show me your papers.”

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

Merz replied that Germans owed a debt to Americans as in the long run "this was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

Reid added that she was a social democrat who believed in "freedom of expression, free trade unions and free elections" and was not any sort of "admirer or apologist for the Chinese Communist party's dictatorship".

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

The Soviet Union controlled East Germany, where it installed a Communist government under a dictatorship.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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