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Recent Examples of Big Brother
There is a lot of chatter out there on the interwebs about who will and won’t be in the house for Big Brother season 28.
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 July 2026
Season 28 will be a treat for longtime viewers, Chen Moonves teases, as the time trip theme means competitions are inspired by iconic moments from history and from Big Brother history, with time-bending twists that will directly impact the game.
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Rachel Desantis,
PEOPLE,
1 July 2026
The former The Talk show co-host will be joining the panel alongside Big Brother champions Taylor Hale and Derric Levasseur.
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Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
30 June 2026
People looking to get a break from Big Brother may be up for spending more money to get that privacy, though who knows what the future will hold.
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Sara Lacey,
The Drive,
25 June 2026
It was made for the skating magazine Big Brother, but the tape eventually helped Knoxville score a TV deal.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
25 June 2026
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 July 2026
Season 28 will be a treat for longtime viewers, Chen Moonves teases, as the time trip theme means competitions are inspired by iconic moments from history and from Big Brother history, with time-bending twists that will directly impact the game.
—
Rachel Desantis,
PEOPLE,
1 July 2026
The former The Talk show co-host will be joining the panel alongside Big Brother champions Taylor Hale and Derric Levasseur.
—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
30 June 2026
People looking to get a break from Big Brother may be up for spending more money to get that privacy, though who knows what the future will hold.
—
Sara Lacey,
The Drive,
25 June 2026
It was made for the skating magazine Big Brother, but the tape eventually helped Knoxville score a TV deal.
—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
25 June 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.
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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.
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Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.
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This book keeps my feet on the ground and my heart connected to the greater pulse suffering under late-stage capitalism and fascism.
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Through blood-curdling howls and rants about fascism, fraud, and fighting to understand your identity, Truck Violence push through ugliness to find something more unaltered and real.
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Yet this year so far has been a dicey one for the Russian authoritarian.
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Yet this year so far has been a dicey one for the Russian authoritarian.
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Still, some historians object to reincarnating a place so central to Nazism as a cultural venue for pleasure.
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Threat of communism, along with awful economic misery, spawned fascism and Nazism, and World War II.
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With 775 rooms, the palace also provides office space for the royal bureaucracy and hosts lavish state dinners for visiting presidents and potentates.
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With 775 rooms, the palace also provides office space for the royal bureaucracy and hosts lavish state dinners for visiting presidents and potentates.
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In its vision of a desolate America ruled by tyranny and militia, the United States becomes, in the eyes of those who live in its pre-industrial ruins, an idealized symbol of better times.
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Reading words in legal texts divorced from fundamental moral values will not save us from tyranny.
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Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the autocrat who ruled the country in the mid-twentieth century, commissioned modern architectural projects to project an image of the country as, if not progressive, at the very least progressing.
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Conquerors and autocrats may win the immediate battle by bullying their subjects into submission, but their empires inevitably crumble the moment their iron grip falters.
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