oligarchic
Example Sentences
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Imperial overreach comes home: financial crisis, a Spartan fleet off the coast of Attica and an oligarchic coup in Athens.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Yet the absence of an ideology among the oligarchs gives to oligarchic rule a flexibility lacking in autocratic forms of power.
From Salon • Sep. 28, 2021
This would all be shockingly meritocratic for such an oligarchic sport, even if the suits are just trying to avoid yet another antitrust lawsuit.
From Slate • Jun. 16, 2021
Thus, between 405 BCE – 338 BCE, the old order of the hoplites and republics atrophied, replaced by oligarchic councils or tyrants in the poleis and stronger, tax-supported states.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
