autocracy

Emphasizing compassion and kindness, the Dalai Lama’s spiritual and moral leadership exemplifies the victory of freedom and faith over autocracy and repression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

He admired the spirit of liberty, for instance, yet opposed the French Revolution and supported Napoleon, believing that ensuing populist disorder would then, as it turned out, require autocracy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Back then, Florida’s student government had a reputation of operating a little like an autocracy.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025

The Pope spoke to a crowd of thousands in St Peter's Square to warn against marginalisation of the poor and autocracy.

From BBC ● May 18, 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

The Games were held in the middle of autocracies, the middle of pandemics and the middle of nowhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 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

Orwell understood that the manipulation of language is an insidious tool of autocracies.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 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

Here, in one corner of this vast empire, a revolt lacking all signs of terrorism, growing out of nothing into a sudden burst of indignation, knocked over the most absolute of autocracies.

From World's War Events, Vol. II by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds