oligarchic
Example Sentences
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The courtroom served as a kind of leveler in an increasingly oligarchic age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
In these environments, oligarchic dynasties and familial networks create and sustain privileged microclimates of abundance — though mostly for their own exclusive benefit.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2024
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, 2019
In an oligarchic near-future United States, a high school valedictorian asks “impertinent” questions about the government, leading to her “reeducation” in 1959 Wisconsin, 80 years in the past.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2018
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
