dictatorship
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This explains why roughly 1,200 prisoners of conscience, including some 700 arrested for participating in islandwide protests against the dictatorship on July 11, 2021, remain behind bars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 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
Former senator Brian Burston accused Hanson of running a "dictatorship" when he quit in 2018.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
Argentine officials last week published almost 500 pages of intelligence documents dating from 1973-1983, including the seven-year period of the military dictatorship.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
They apply to the organization of entire countries: remember the perennial arguments about whether the best form of government is a benign dictatorship, a federal system, or an anarchical free-for-all.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing dictatorship
You Can Say That Again: Dic and Dict
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President Trump's First Address to the United Nations General Assembly (2017)
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