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Recent Examples of antidemocratic
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been under government surveillance for years, suspected of antidemocratic activity.
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Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2025
These fissures are where Islamism leaps in to segregate, cohort, and indoctrinate with antidemocratic illiberal Islamist values forming the milieu ripe for radicalization, including terrorism and evolutionary jihad.
—Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
Erdoğan’s creeping authoritarianism Mr. Erdoğan and his AKP have ruled Turkey with a creeping authoritarianism that has seen surges of antidemocratic actions.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2025
As my research on democracy and human rights shows, the state government is becoming increasingly antidemocratic.
—Katie Scofield, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
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Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2025
These fissures are where Islamism leaps in to segregate, cohort, and indoctrinate with antidemocratic illiberal Islamist values forming the milieu ripe for radicalization, including terrorism and evolutionary jihad.
—Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
Erdoğan’s creeping authoritarianism Mr. Erdoğan and his AKP have ruled Turkey with a creeping authoritarianism that has seen surges of antidemocratic actions.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2025
As my research on democracy and human rights shows, the state government is becoming increasingly antidemocratic.
—Katie Scofield, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antidemocratic
Adjective
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In the age of the great Stalinist purges, this is the plunge of a man into the corridors of a totalitarian regime that does not bear said name.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
24 June 2025
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What is a totalitarian leader other than an individualist taking that creed to its cruel conclusions, erasing the uniqueness of every other person into mere characters in a drama?—
Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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Since seizing control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the group has implemented a string of oppressive measures against women and girls, even cracking down on the sound of women’s voices in public.—
Catherine Nicholls,
CNN Money,
8 July 2025
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Others reject the portrayal of federal actions as oppressive, suggesting deployments like those in Los Angeles prioritize national security and immigration enforcement.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 July 2025
Adjective
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Whether Trump's death quelled or accelerated authoritarian forces remains an open question.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 July 2025
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All of these factors and their contribution to alienation can foster authoritarian beliefs and individualism.—
Nathan Meyers,
The Conversation,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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Without any consequences, this autocratic politician will continue to push the limits of his authority beyond the breaking point until someone forces him to stop.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
29 June 2025
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Iranian meddling in the region has provided Arab dictators such as Syria’s Bashar al-Assad with both the moral and material means to suppress dissent, crush reform, and extend their autocratic rule.—
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib,
The Atlantic,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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Copy Facebook Pinterest Photo by An Rong Xu From my airplane window, the Pearl River unfurled from fogged mountains in a glossy, pale-blue ribbon, a magisterial curve of water that defined the landscape with its flow.—
Bonnie Tsui,
AFAR Media,
6 May 2025
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And currently, there is Charles Gaines’ magisterial new works, Numbers and Trees, The Tanzania Baobabs, at Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood (on view through May 31, 2025).—
Tom Teicholz,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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However, some new reevaluations of primary source documents and ethnobotanical fieldwork now suggests there was more to the madman than tyrannical bloodlust.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
10 July 2025
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Today, a group of immigrant plaintiffs bear the same banner of freedom against the tyrannical immigration policies of Trump and his new travel ban.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 July 2025
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“Antidemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antidemocratic. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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