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absolute power

NOUN

complete authority to act

Synonyms

WEAK

absolutism autarchy autocracy despotism dictatorship tyranny

Example Sentences

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Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo now hold absolute power over the country.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

The old adage is true: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026

But time and again the poisonous isolation that absolute power imposes on its wielders blunted the edge of their insight and degraded the capacity of their societies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

He saw King George III’s rule as the epitome of tyranny, and warned that “a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2025

Here’s what’s so hard for us to understand today: The ruthless, paranoid Josef Stalin, by then the uncontested leader of the USSR, commanded a bizarre and absolute power over his people.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein