monocrats

noun

plural of monocrat
as in Big Brothers

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  1. autocrats
  2. oppressors
  3. dictators
  4. tyrants
  5. pharaohs
  6. strongmen
  7. despots
Noun
  • 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.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • Trump has made clear his disdain for NATO, his affection for Putin, gushes over autocrats, and withholds military support for Ukraine.
    — Arthur House, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2026
Definition of autocrats
Noun
  • An America where justice brings down oppressors and lifts up the ordinary.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • And did the advocates of this collective pedagogy imagine their children rising to heights of power, only to view the darker nations of the world through the same violent lens as their oppressors?
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
Definition of oppressors
Noun
  • Its flint-hearted ferocity was a return to what the dynasts of the past—warlords, kings, and dictators—would find routine.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • Will people who flee dictators and endless poverty be permitted lawfully to cross America’s shores and borders in search of a better life?
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
Definition of dictators
Noun
  • Because, after all, as in all of Haber’s novels, the point is not really what is happening in the world but what is happening in the mind—in this case the mind of the pettiest of tyrants.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
  • Aegon, dragged out of King’s Landing by spymaster Lord Larys Strong (Matthew Needham) in an effort to save him from the fratricidal Aemond, gets an up-close look at the petty tyrants who have sprouted up in the countryside thanks to his impetuous rule.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 June 2026
Definition of tyrants
Noun
  • In Egypt, certain pharaohs seemed, for reasons still debated, to tilt their own representations from the ideal to the natural.
    — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Her male counterparts were also well represented, with pharaohs donning headdresses of various eras, their outfits playing on the contrast between polished, hammered, engraved and even beaded golds.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 9 June 2026
Definition of pharaohs
Noun
  • The cross was not meant to be a stage prop for strongmen.
    — Otis Moss III, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • Latin America is swinging rightward again, electing presidents who promise to channel the strongmen of yore and rule the region through might, not right.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026
Definition of strongmen
Noun
  • The invisible power of the unelected despots of data and tech lords must be diminished; if families cannot control the disaster of digital addiction, states will have to legislate for them.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • The Boys – Season 5 (Prime Video) Things have gone from bad to worse in the final season of The Boys, Prime Video’s irreverent superhero satire about America succumbing to charismatic despots and fascistic opportunists.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Definition of despots
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