How to Use authoritarian in a Sentence

authoritarian

adjective
  • First and foremost, is the theme of the fear of an authoritarian world.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2024
  • This guy's not gonna be an authoritarian.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Trump has acted in ways that were despotic and authoritarian at times, but this takes the cake.
    — Ashley Pratte Oates, CNN, 5 Dec. 2022
  • By the same token, what if an authoritarian regime could peer into your blockchain soul?
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 26 May 2022
  • In an authoritarian state, neighborhood trust is a thing of the past.
    — WIRED, 1 Nov. 2022
  • That includes members of the press who do not serve the authoritarian regime in the country.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 5 Mar. 2022
  • But there have been few easy answers about how to proceed in dealing with authoritarian regimes.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The excerpt from the memo sounds a little cold and authoritarian.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • This year, the once-moving scene was entirely stamped out by the city’s more authoritarian turn.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • So bringing in those authoritarian elements, how much does the city help do that?
    — Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • Look-alike models are a danger in the hands of a budding authoritarian state.
    — David Karpf, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2025
  • What authoritarian regimes seek to erase, the law preserves.
    — Christina Hioureas, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Optimism that the authoritarian regime that has ruled Iran for may years could fall.
    — Patrick Anderson, The Providence Journal, 4 Mar. 2026
  • And most of all, the authoritarian right loves AI.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Which brings me to the question of why this all progressed from a snowball fight to an authoritarian avalanche at such lightning speed?
    — Merrill Markoe, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The good thing about being an authoritarian leader is that there are few people to dissent.
    — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The Matrix movies urged us to wake up and resist authoritarian rule.
    — Amy Webb, Wired, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Six years thinking about ordinary beings as an authoritarian regime comes in for the kill.
    — Dan Gilroy, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The activist Left will howl that this is authoritarian.
    — Ayaan Hirsi Ali, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • This song speeds past the worst aspect of authoritarian media that chews up and spits out so much popular culture.
    — Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2023
  • And many living under authoritarian regimes know what that haunting feels like.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Fox said the post was a commentary on the authoritarian nature of the movement.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Critics accuse him of leading the country down down a path of authoritarian rule.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • And from the point of view of Putin's authoritarian regime, this is certainly a problem.
    — TIME, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Despite his progressive views, he was widely seen as an authoritarian and a despot.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Many saw his presidency as a fresh start for the country, which has been mired by decades of corrupt, authoritarian rule.
    — Fox News, 5 Sep. 2021
  • That’s a lesson that authoritarian nations have learned on the battlefield time and again.
    — David French, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The rhetoric has stoked alarm among critics that a second Trump term could usher in a wave of authoritarian revenge.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Every other country in the world at that time was under authoritarian rule.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2026
  • What is the answer to that — an authoritarian taskmaster?
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026

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