tyranny
Example Sentences
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Hence, the utility and concurrent tyranny of the Year-End list: It’s a wonderful viewing guide for our holiday breaks, and a reminder of everything we missed over the past 12 months.
From Salon
Thus, to the “tyranny”—to the “dead hand”—of gold, he says good riddance.
“Adding more podcasts in a tyranny of choice environment is not great,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
It was an early example of Americans’ resentment of English tyranny, presaging the anger that would erupt into the Revolutionary War in the next century.
They appear stuck in what Milton Friedman called “the tyranny of the status quo.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
