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Recent Examples of Big Brother
The council’s press releases would become commonplace following that, leading campaigns to elevate complaints about everything from ER to CSI to Big Brother and the Emmy Awards.
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Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Indeed, before the format change, Big Brother was plagued with season after season of unanimous group votes that were obvious days before the eviction even happened.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Oct. 2025
Contestants on the latest season of Big Brother UK are being reprimanded for misgendering and using homophobic language towards other housemates.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 8 Oct. 2025
After briefly returning home to get sober, Joplin went back to California and joined the band Big Brother & The Holding Company in 1966, according to PBS.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
This isn’t the Celebrity Big Brother cast member’s first time speaking up about her gender identity.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 4 Oct. 2025
What happened on the season finale of 'Big Brother 27'?
—David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 29 Sep. 2025
How much do 'Big Brother' winners get after taxes?
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Owen Wilson is Luke Wilson’s (three-years-older) big brother.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
Indeed, before the format change, Big Brother was plagued with season after season of unanimous group votes that were obvious days before the eviction even happened.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Oct. 2025
Contestants on the latest season of Big Brother UK are being reprimanded for misgendering and using homophobic language towards other housemates.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 8 Oct. 2025
After briefly returning home to get sober, Joplin went back to California and joined the band Big Brother & The Holding Company in 1966, according to PBS.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
This isn’t the Celebrity Big Brother cast member’s first time speaking up about her gender identity.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 4 Oct. 2025
What happened on the season finale of 'Big Brother 27'?
—David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 29 Sep. 2025
How much do 'Big Brother' winners get after taxes?
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Owen Wilson is Luke Wilson’s (three-years-older) big brother.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
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.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
31 Mar. 2021
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The surest defense against soft fascism is presence—to show up, visibly, and refuse the framing.—
Alexis Coe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Wyeth had taken several photos of a woman wearing three layers of denim vests, all filled with pins and slogans against fascism, against patriarchy, against the pipeline, against the former rapist in chief, against starving children, against book bans, against transphobes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Evan Osnos,
The New Yorker,
23 Oct. 2022
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But that would not address the fundamental goal of the protests: to end the totalitarian stranglehold that has subjected the Cubans to an unbearable serfdom.—
Néstor T. Carbonell,
National Review,
16 July 2021
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Still, some historians object to reincarnating a place so central to Nazism as a cultural venue for pleasure.—
Shira Li Bartov,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
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Threat of communism, along with awful economic misery, spawned fascism and Nazism, and World War II.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
22 July 2025
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Not your grandma’s authoritarians Today’s authoritarian rulers realize that civil society has the potential to support democracy and pry loose their grip on power.—
Christopher Justin Einolf,
The Conversation,
26 Sep. 2025
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That is why censorship is the authoritarian's dream.—
Robert Birsel
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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As previously announced, Andrew Garfield stars as the legendary leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
13 Oct. 2025
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Andrew Garfield is leading the feature that is now in production, portraying the leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Oct. 2025
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Why don’t all the rich potentates, sheiks, oligarchs and MAGA dictators meet and fix it?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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With the pandemic, the year-round population of a once-seasonal resort town swelled with Manhattan refugees, those in the Trump orbit, and tech and finance potentates, many of them serious collectors like Ken Griffin and Steve Ross.—
Ben Widdicombe,
Vulture,
12 May 2025
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Made as Brazil’s dictatorship was losing its grip, these films confronted repression indirectly, turning sensuality into an act of defiance.—
Lise Pedersen,
Variety,
12 Oct. 2025
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As the series continues, the twins find their parents, grow up, fall in love and fight dictatorship.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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