autocracy
noun
au·toc·ra·cy
ȯ-ˈtä-krə-sē 
plural autocracies
1
: the authority or rule of an autocrat
2
: government in which one person possesses unlimited power
3
: a community or state governed by autocracy
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Examples of autocracy in a Sentence
the Magna Carta is historically important because it signified the British rejection of autocracy and constituted the first formal restraining of the power of the monarch
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Fukuyama was wrong, of course; liberty did not enjoy some final triumph over autocracy in the world, or even much of a honeymoon.
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Matt Bai, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
What began as a broadly popular political movement under the socialist President Hugo Chávez in 1999 gradually slid into autocracy.
—Alex González Ormerod, TIME, 6 Aug. 2024
And yet all the good news obscured abiding weaknesses, including widening economic disparities, high youth unemployment, and a turn to autocracy under Hasina and her party, the Awami League.
—Ali Riaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2024
The principles Broad coalitions fighting autocracy often face difficulty finding a common ground that overrides policy differences.
—Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 28 July 2024
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Matt Bai, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
What began as a broadly popular political movement under the socialist President Hugo Chávez in 1999 gradually slid into autocracy.
—Alex González Ormerod, TIME, 6 Aug. 2024
And yet all the good news obscured abiding weaknesses, including widening economic disparities, high youth unemployment, and a turn to autocracy under Hasina and her party, the Awami League.
—Ali Riaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2024
The principles Broad coalitions fighting autocracy often face difficulty finding a common ground that overrides policy differences.
—Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 28 July 2024
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autocracy
noun
au·toc·ra·cy
ȯ-ˈtäk-rə-sē
plural autocracies
: government in which one person has unlimited power
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