How to Use theocratic in a Sentence

theocratic

adjective
  • But what followed is shaking the theocratic state to its core.
    — Kay Armin Serjoie, Time, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Because that is a theocratic regime who is hell-bent on global jihad.
    — NBC news, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The choice the group makes will determine a great deal about Iran’s future as a theocratic state.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Now they’re poised to take their theocratic agenda nationwide.
    — Mattathias Schwartz Emma Goldberg Ava Kofman Lulu Garcia-Navarro Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah Ligaya Mishan Nick Pachelli Erin Somers John Hodgman, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2024
  • While those in power have continued their grip on things, there are signs of weakness and rot from within the theocratic regime.
    — John J. Kelly, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2019
  • But there’s a growing sense that the violent playbook the theocratic regime has used to crush dissent in the past won’t work this time.
    — Omid Khazani and Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • It's built on preservation of a theocratic region, number one, above all others.
    — CBS News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Three decades of theocratic rule has transformed Iran into one of the most secular nations in the world.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Perhaps the recent religion cases are, as some have alleged, the work of a theocratic court.
    — Charles McCrary, The New Republic, 5 July 2022
  • The real source of Dawn’s terror, though, is not familial or theocratic but erotic.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • That debt has been settled in full by five decades of theocratic brutality and economic decay.
    — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This is not the first brush with theocratic law for the dissident director, who’s been working steadily out of Iran for two decades.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The Taliban imposed stern theocratic rule and gave the terrorist group al-Qaeda a base.
    — Nick Wadhams | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2019
  • That all changed after the overthrow of Iran’s Shah and rise of the current theocratic government.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2020
  • For decades, the American left has warned of a growing theocratic bent in America.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 5 May 2017
  • But just two years after the museum opened, the shah was toppled and theocratic rule by Shiite clerics was installed.
    — ABC News, 8 May 2026
  • Nothing in the 20th century could have prepared the world for the resulting theocratic state.
    — Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Here’s a look at how the recent wave of protests and strikes in Iran and the talks over the nuclear deal are intertwined for the country’s theocratic regime.
    — Omid Khazani, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • Scenes once unthinkable as symbols of the theocratic regime are targeted by protester.
    — CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • But what shocked Nemat the most was the speed of her nation's descent into a theocratic regime in 1979.
    — Yaffa Fredrick, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Afterward, the northern Sayyids were scorned as relics of a benighted theocratic era, and many fell into poverty.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Washington should dispense with the illusions of a truce with Iran’s theocratic oligarchs.
    — Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The religious ideologue lacks all humor, lacks any awareness of the distance between his theocratic dreams and the real world around him.
    — Kian Tajbakhsh, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Moreover, to live in the legal structures that incubate theocratic ideas, all their leaders have to do is continue to obstruct change.
    — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Gilead, which is governed by men, is disguised as a theocratic society but really is built on trampling the rights of women and even on a culture of rape.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
  • But the past 47 years under theocratic rule have been an aberration that’s held the region — and the world — hostage to violence, chaos and threats.
    — Chuck Devore, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
  • But the past 47 years under theocratic rule have been an aberration that’s held the region — and the world — hostage to violence, chaos and threats.
    — Chuck Devore, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Rights groups say hundreds of Iranians have been killed in the government crackdown on the protests, which are seen as a challenge to the theocratic regime.
    — Greg Dixon, NPR, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Protests in Iran, the largest in years, are targeting the theocratic government that has been in place since 1979.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Of course, Hamas regularly threatens those who expose the theocratic regime’s murder and abuse of civilians.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 17 May 2021

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