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despotism

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Noun

1. absolutism

2. tyranny, dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control, dictatorship

3. absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny, autocracy, autarchy

Usage
Despotic primate societies rarely play as adults, analysis of 37 species reveals - Phys.org
Friday essay: John Keane on demagogues, despots and the rise of ‘phantom democracies’ - The Conversation
Despotism promotes dyadic cooperation through enhanced interdependencies in non-human primate societies - Nature
EU cooperation with the Taliban legitimises this despotic (and despicable) regime - EUobserver
From “Minor Despotism” to Modern Iran: The Long Struggle Between Society and Absolute Power - irannewsupdate.com
There's no room for joking in authoritarian societies: despotism suppresses social play in primates - UNIPI
Despotism in America - telos-eu.com
The Death of Khamenei Is the Death of Religious Despotism and the End of the Velayat-e Faqih Regime - National Council of Resistance of Iran - NCRI
What animals can teach us about overcoming tyranny - BBC
Jesus showed how to defy despots - Religion News Service
A timely – and hopeful – analysis of the global erosion of democracy - SMH.com.au
White ‘Moderates’ and Despotism: An Example from the Archive - Bucks County Beacon
THE MIRROR OF DESPOTISM: Caligula, Trump, and America - vocal.media
How China’s 5,100-year-old dams challenge Western narratives on despotism - South China Morning Post
Pope Leo, in Angola, decries 'despots' who exploit resources, make false promises - Reuters
How Iran became a despotism - Workers' Liberty
Pope Leo blasts ‘despot’ leaders for resource exploitation and empty promises - Modern Diplomacy
Reza Pahlavi Glorifies the Legacy of Repression, Corruption, and Despotism - National Council of Resistance of Iran - NCRI
Despots, brutality and the quest for a home: The Hair of the Pigeon explores suffering and love - The Conversation
The radical Left’s merger with Islamist despotism - Fathom Journal
Why informed voters like AAUW members are our best defense against despotism | Joyce M. Davis - PennLive.com
Maryam Rajavi Declares Ali Khamenei’s Death the End of Religious Despotism in Iran - Iran Freedom
Opinion | Real Despots Hijack Artificial Intelligence - The New York Times
Imperialism v Fundamentalism: Empathizing With Iran Must Recognize the Internal Struggle Against Religious Despotism - American Kahani
Trump's despotism extends to DC golf courses - Public Notice | Aaron Rupar
Russia’s Paranoid Despot and His Secret Police - Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
In the Despot Archives | Helen Epstein, Lauren Kane - The New York Review of Books
Democratic despotism: The left moves from censored to compelled speech - The Hill
BOWLER: Canada is sleepwalking into soft despotism - Winnipeg Sun
Don’t welcome Africa’s newest despot - The Economist
Take a look at North Despot baseball - Shreveport Times
Like Hungarians, Americans, too, could say 'no' to a despot | Op-Ed - The Seattle Times
The Despot's Apprentice: Donald Trump's attack on democracy - The London School of Economics and Political Science
JOHN FIGLIOZZI: We can disagree over policy, but not over despotism - The Daily Gazette
Alexis de Tocqueville’s warning in 1840 about despotism in democratic countries - Contando Estrelas
Canada is sleepwalking into soft despotism - Frontier Centre For Public Policy
Current Events Remind Us That Freedom Is Not Free: The U.S. Has Drifted Dangerously Close To Despotism - Colorado Times Recorder
Op-Ed | Abducting a despot: When U.S. justice leaves the Fourth Amendment behind | amNewYork - amNewYork
Against Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s technocratic despotism - Washington Examiner
My dog Arthur is a despot and now I can’t put shoes on - The Age
My dog Arthur is a despot and now I can’t put shoes on - SMH.com.au
Protesters rail against Venezuelan despot Nicolas Maduro outside Metropolitan Detention Center - Brooklyn Paper
Imperial Despotism of Russia: Historical Perspectives - Queen Mary University of London
Nawab Nehru’s Undying Love for Muslim Despotism Exposed Threadbare - The Dharma Dispatch
Growing links between organised crime and foreign 'despots', AFP boss warns - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Donald Trump Jokes With Zohran Mamdani About Being Called ‘Fascist, Despot’ - Newsweek
Despotism at the Door - The Bulwark
Bit Despotism: The Genesis of High-Tech Monopolies - Monthly Review
Despotism Beckons as Georgia Jails Opponents - Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
Trump aims for one-party rule — and puts despotism at our doorstep - Salon.com
A Revolutionary Fantasy That Speaks to Our Current Descent into Despotism - The Indypendent
North Korea could become the first gender-swapping despotism - Yahoo
Tocqueville and Democratic Despotism in Modern Democracies - Beyond the Horizon ISSG
Despotism Is All Around Us - Tufts Now
Despotism (1946) - Britannica
The Despotism of Isaias Afewerki | Alex de Waal - The Baffler
The New Health Despotism: EU Commission Uses Nicotine Tax to Boost Its Clout - The European Conservative
The Possibility of Despotism in America - The Library of Economics and Liberty
The Despotism of Money - Commonweal Magazine
'Unhinged Despotism': Critics Slam Trump's Willingness to Invoke Insurrection Act - Common Dreams
Supreme Court objects to Prashant Bhushan calling the Election Commission a "despot" - OpIndia
Benjamin Franklin foresaw the US’s descent into despotism - The Guardian
What Washington Can Do To Slow Turkey’s Despotic Turn - Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Daniel Klein - Law & Liberty
Israel is at a crucial crossroads: it can save itself or slide into despotism | Dahlia Scheindlin - The Guardian
Despotism (1946) - The Public Domain Review
Despotism is all around us: the warnings of Montesquieu - Aeon
Trump’s Big Speech: Democracy, Demagogy & Despotism - Washington Spectator
Taliban Rule is Not Authoritarian but Despotic Totalitarianism - Foreign Policy in Focus
Trump’s Despotic Reign is the Antithesis of Genuine Republicanism - IDN-InDepthNews
This week, RFK Jr. and Donald Trump showed how disease and despotism walk hand in hand - Advocate.com
Newsletter: Trump went full despot on Day 1, pardoning Jan. 6 rioters - Los Angeles Times
THE NIGHTMARE OF DESPOTISM | The Atlantic - news - Magzter
JS Mill and the despotism of progress Conservatives have been fooled by his vision of liberty - UnHerd
Despotism Goes Global - City Journal
Despotism and defiance powerfully manifest in NSO’s Russian program - Washington Classical Review
Meeting With a Despot - Psychiatry Online
Book Review: The New Despotism, John Keane (2020) - Beyond the Horizon ISSG
Book Review: The New Despotism by John Keane - LSE Review of Books - The London School of Economics and Political Science
The Old Despotism & the New Anarchy - The Imaginative Conservative
Gordon Humphrey: In New Hampshire’s historic cradle of liberty despotism rears its head - UnionLeader.com
Myanmar’s crisis: Military despotism and ethnic bloodshed | Daily Sabah - Daily Sabah
As a boy, I fled despotism in Cuba.Now I’m fighting it here in America. - The Washington Post
How demagogues destroy democracy: a step-by-step global guide - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Poland and the Battle to Beat Russian Despotism - Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
Why America is vulnerable to a despot - The Economist
The Era of Soft Campus Despotism Is Far from Over - National Review
America's long record of judicial despotism - The Week
Between Democracy and Despotism - Hillsdale College
The New Despotism by John Keane - Open Letters Review
The Despots’ Dilemma: Case Studies of Failing Dictators - Encyclopedia Geopolitica
Three Paths to Despotism - Newgeography.com
Why Do Authoritarians Win? - Boston Review
This is how despotism ends Putin will haunt the world long after his fall - UnHerd
Khrushchev’s Russia: The Durability of Soviet Despotism - Commentary Magazine
Opinion | Turkey reaches a new low of despotism - The Washington Post
BIRTH (DEFECTS) share second single "Despotism" from long-shelved LP ‘Deceiver / Mirror’ - IDIOTEQ.com
Un-Enlightened Despotism - 8am.media
Review: India’s descent into despotism - Chatham House
The Shah’s Despotism Laid the Foundation for the Clerical Dictatorship in Iran - Iran Focus
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'despotism'
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Misspellings - Typos
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Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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