as in dictatorship
a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power
a popular uprising replaced that nation's tyranny with freedom and democracy
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Recent Examples of tyranny
In Shiite communities, Ashoura is viewed as a symbol of struggle against injustice and tyranny.
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ABC News,
25 June 2026
All call for their countrymen to fight against tyranny.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
Vanessa Hudson, Qantas Group CEO, described the new flights as overcoming the tyranny of distance travelers to Australia face.
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Edward Russell,
Travel + Leisure,
23 June 2026
Robin Hood has long been a mascot for anyone who opposes tyranny, greed and corruption.
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Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
22 June 2026
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ABC News,
25 June 2026
All call for their countrymen to fight against tyranny.
—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
Vanessa Hudson, Qantas Group CEO, described the new flights as overcoming the tyranny of distance travelers to Australia face.
—
Edward Russell,
Travel + Leisure,
23 June 2026
Robin Hood has long been a mascot for anyone who opposes tyranny, greed and corruption.
—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
22 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tyranny
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His story stretches beyond sports, touching one of Haiti’s many mysteries of Haiti’s brutal Duvalier dictatorship and reflecting on the outsize role Haitians have long played in shaping American history.
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Virtually all contemporary dictatorships are cosplay democracies with term limits, elections, and legislatures—the few ruling, as Amos Perlmutter put it, in the name of the many.
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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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The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism.
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His dream was nothing less than a new reality, a hopeful future free of despotism, ruled by equality and liberty, rather than kings and queens.
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In spite of their original values of humanitarianism and neutrality, these organizations have been morally debased from within, using the language of human rights and international justice yet deploying it on behalf of autocracies and against the liberal democracies that created them.
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The good ones who are trying to carefully transition a country from democracy to autocracy don't do it overnight.
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Visual artist and historian Ranfis Suárez Ramos highlighted the importance of internet access for Cubans as a way to break the hold of totalitarianism.
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His parents’ experience living under totalitarianism shaped his outlook on the world.
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The Democratic Socialists of America describes it as a system that prioritizes the needs of ordinary people while rejecting authoritarianism.
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This revival finds new power in the intimate story of a family learning to love again set against one of the most consequential moments of the twentieth century, as the Nazi regime rises to power and authoritarianism encroaches on daily life.
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In fact, that kind of absolutism is a good way to become part of another kind of silencing, another kind of injustice.
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The result is the extreme polarization and absolutism.
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“Tyranny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tyranny. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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