How to Use autocracy in a Sentence

autocracy

noun
  • His verbal assaults are a long way from autocracy and the end of the rule of law.
    — Zachary Karabell, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2018
  • And among those who do see it as possible, some fear a new kind of autocracy.
    — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2024
  • But the years without autocracy have started to seem like a blip.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 16 June 2023
  • Over the last 30 years, the forces of autocracy have revived all across the globe.
    — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2022
  • No one seems wowed by the achievements of autocracy today.
    — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Two thousand twenty-two was not a good year for the world’s leading autocracies.
    — Lucan Ahmad Way, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
  • Maybe autocracy starts with something as trivial as this.
    — John M. Crisp, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe autocracy starts with something as trivial as this.
    — John M. Crisp, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
  • There is a risk that the country could become a crypto-autocracy.
    — Morgan Simon, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • But the slide towards autocracy has pushed millions to stand up and demand a say in how their lives are governed.
    — Vivienne Walt, Time, 12 July 2018
  • There is nothing new in autocracies like Iran blaming others for their woes.
    — Nic Robertson, CNN, 8 Apr. 2020
  • This capital city doesn't have the trappings of an autocracy.
    — Leila Fadel, NPR, 29 May 2025
  • How all three autocracies dealt with the coronavirus is censored.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Trump, meanwhile, treated the prospect of autocracy as a big joke, and his supporters laughed along.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
  • And once that happened, autocracy would seem as natural as the forest.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Of course, few countries aspire to autocracy.
    — John M. Crisp, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Of course, few countries aspire to autocracy.
    — John M. Crisp, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
  • As of now, 60 percent of the world is living under autocracy.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2023
  • In their twin decisions that day, the nine justices reduced our future to a choice between two forms of autocracy.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Xi and Putin stood together, autocracy brothers ready to take on the West.
    — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Yet the film’s timeliness is still a tonic, given that the spirit of autocracy looks more and more like a virus that now wants to take over the world.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The nation has continued to slide into autocracy since then.
    — John Joseph Chin, The Conversation, 1 Dec. 2025
  • At the end of the day, these are autocracies in transition and entering into a new status quo that seems much more fragile.
    — Yonatan Morse, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
  • And the spectre of autocracy is even worse, David Remnick argues.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2025
  • If Hungary was an autocracy, then why were its critics still allowed to sit in the middle of the capital and say so?
    — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • But the goal of building a world safe for autocracy is putting China on a collision course with other nations.
    — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
  • In a sense, one version of this autocracy is replaced with another — and nothing changes much for the people who live at the whims of the ruling class.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2024
  • China must learn to respect the will of the people—starting with Chinese people's will to be free from autocracy.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • There’s a lot of different crumbs of what leads to the autocracy, to the potential dictatorship.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The good ones who are trying to carefully transition a country from democracy to autocracy don't do it overnight.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026

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