dictatorship
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The contemporary Falangist movement in Spain explicitly borrows its name and iconography from Francisco Franco’s dictatorship.
From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026
In this heart-sore and compassionate investigation of unresolved pain, director Marialuisa Ernst makes a parallel between their plight and how her uncle’s disappearance during Argentina’s dictatorship affected her family.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
We're not going to end a dictatorship with poetry.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
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
Mami looks past the crowd at Papi, over there happily exchanging dictatorship stories with the other men.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing dictatorship
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President Trump's First Address to the United Nations General Assembly (2017)
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