theocracy
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She added that her family was happy, but that they expected the collapse of the theocracy to take a longer time.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026
Of these culturally Muslim, rural working classes often credited with wanting a theocracy, my mother says “they just wanted someone to give them their rights. The only thing that united them was basic human needs.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
We might use the term theocracy, although it's a little more complicated than that.
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2024
Intersected at its peak by a thin crescent — most likely a representation of the Golden Order, the dark fantasy world’s ruling theocracy — it feels bluntly referential to saints and prophets and resurrections.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024
The Jew offered the pattern of a theocracy, and the Roman of a hierarchy of officials, but it took two centuries to produce the church of Cyprian.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
