oligarchy

Example Sentences

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Around this time, Greek observers began to use the word “Carthaginian,” and the monarchy was replaced by the oligarchy that would prevail for the rest of Carthage’s history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

By that time, Russian oligarchy was well and truly dead, too.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

Presumably Lisa’s husband, Francesco, a ruthless businessman with powerful roles in civic government amid the local oligarchy, was pleased.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024

We need to think of oligarchs and oligarchy as being not the absence of democracy, but the presence of people who have tremendous wealth-power.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2024

It’s not hard for me to believe that the Bureau would do bad things, because every government I’ve ever known has done bad things, even the Abnegation oligarchy, of which my father was the head.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth