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Recent Examples of Big Brother
Did playing any of the other games like Big Brother, The Traitors, or Snake in the Grass prepare you for this return in any way?
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Feb. 2026
On his first Father’s Day, the Celebrity Big Brother alum dropped a visual accompaniment to one of his 2005 tracks.
—Sarah Title, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
Inside, The Sidemen’s Big Brother-esque reality series that started life on YouTube, recently became a franchise on Netflix.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2026
Boy gets twin siblings after an eight-year wait After an eight-year wait to become a big brother, a Florida boy got a huge surprise when his mom showed him her ultrasound photos.
—Ronnie Li, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
His big brother, Fernando won the Heisman and more than likely will be the top draft pick in the NFL draft.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 19 Jan. 2026
There’s a new sheriff in the night sky though, Saturn’s big brother Jupiter, the king of the planets, on the rise in the eastern heavens along with Orion and the rest of the great winter constellations.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2026
Parriman has applied to be on several reality shows over the years, including Survivor, Big Brother, American Idol and The Voice.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2026
By episode five, Michael had moved on from suspecting Yam Yam to suspecting Colton, who was a ringleader in the previous episode’s banishment of Big Brother fan favorite Tiffany Mitchell.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Feb. 2026
On his first Father’s Day, the Celebrity Big Brother alum dropped a visual accompaniment to one of his 2005 tracks.
—Sarah Title, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
Inside, The Sidemen’s Big Brother-esque reality series that started life on YouTube, recently became a franchise on Netflix.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2026
Boy gets twin siblings after an eight-year wait After an eight-year wait to become a big brother, a Florida boy got a huge surprise when his mom showed him her ultrasound photos.
—Ronnie Li, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
His big brother, Fernando won the Heisman and more than likely will be the top draft pick in the NFL draft.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 19 Jan. 2026
There’s a new sheriff in the night sky though, Saturn’s big brother Jupiter, the king of the planets, on the rise in the eastern heavens along with Orion and the rest of the great winter constellations.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2026
Parriman has applied to be on several reality shows over the years, including Survivor, Big Brother, American Idol and The Voice.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2026
By episode five, Michael had moved on from suspecting Yam Yam to suspecting Colton, who was a ringleader in the previous episode’s banishment of Big Brother fan favorite Tiffany Mitchell.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brother
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Weaponizing social media and other U.S. businesses to do what the Constitution would not allow government to do is Big Brotherism.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
31 Mar. 2021
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From ancient sources philosophers and poets, democrats and demagogues, found justification for everything from anarchy to fascism, and there are reasons for both justifications.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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That is really thuggish fascism.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2026
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But, ten years later, his embrace of near-totalitarian control bears the deep imprint of his most personal beliefs about force, weakness, faith, and order.—
Evan Osnos,
The New Yorker,
23 Oct. 2022
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But that would not address the fundamental goal of the protests: to end the totalitarian stranglehold that has subjected the Cubans to an unbearable serfdom.—
Néstor T. Carbonell,
National Review,
16 July 2021
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Still, some historians object to reincarnating a place so central to Nazism as a cultural venue for pleasure.—
Shira Li Bartov,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
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Threat of communism, along with awful economic misery, spawned fascism and Nazism, and World War II.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
22 July 2025
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Maduro — a left-wing authoritarian who ruled Venezuela for more than a decade while ignoring election results — was not just another foreign dictator.—
Dustin Olson,
Boston Herald,
25 Jan. 2026
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But here, such altruistic considerations do not justify capitulating to a lawless authoritarian in the White House.—
Max Potter,
Denver Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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Williams’s novel is concerned with time’s tyranny.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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Bashar al-Assad, who oversaw the torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of his fellow Syrians during a quarter century in power, may have achieved something new in the annals of tyranny.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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Biden put this sentiment into action by working with Netanyahu despite serious moral and political failures in Gaza, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on NATO expansion, and with Gulf potentates on the region’s security architecture.—
James Jeffrey,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Nov. 2025
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Why don’t all the rich potentates, sheiks, oligarchs and MAGA dictators meet and fix it?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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The royal government was also known as a dictatorship for banning political parties, suppressing revolts and political opposition, controlling the press and having its own secret police force called SAVAK.—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Throughout, Hadi calls attention to the brutality that’s endemic in Iraqi daily life under a dictatorship.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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