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Recent Examples of Big Brother
The brothers all but operate as a single unit, with Taha being all too happy to play big brother to young Alisan.
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Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
That's how Irvine ended up capturing the sweet interaction between the shopping mall Santa and her two sons, Thomas and his big brother, Bennett.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
As the offense ran onto the field, doubt kept its distance from Daniels’ surrogate big brother.
—Ben Standig, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
Instead, the Yankees of yesteryear would have thrown money at him while the Mets shopped in the bargain bins, always living in the shadows of big brother in the Bronx.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024
And so, the Louvre-Lens was born, with temporary exhibition galleries and its emblematic Galerie du Temps (Gallery of Time), a 32,000 square-foot open space reserved for some 200 loans from its Parisian big brother.
—Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 5 Dec. 2024
Carter joins his big brother Lincoln, whom Schneider and Harrison welcomed in 2020.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
On Monday, Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh fell to 0-3 against his big brother, Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh.
—Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 26 Nov. 2024
In the very first episode, Cooper learned that her big brother had been killed in the Vietnam War.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 26 Nov. 2024
Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
That's how Irvine ended up capturing the sweet interaction between the shopping mall Santa and her two sons, Thomas and his big brother, Bennett.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
As the offense ran onto the field, doubt kept its distance from Daniels’ surrogate big brother.
—Ben Standig, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
Instead, the Yankees of yesteryear would have thrown money at him while the Mets shopped in the bargain bins, always living in the shadows of big brother in the Bronx.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024
And so, the Louvre-Lens was born, with temporary exhibition galleries and its emblematic Galerie du Temps (Gallery of Time), a 32,000 square-foot open space reserved for some 200 loans from its Parisian big brother.
—Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 5 Dec. 2024
Carter joins his big brother Lincoln, whom Schneider and Harrison welcomed in 2020.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
On Monday, Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh fell to 0-3 against his big brother, Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh.
—Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 26 Nov. 2024
In the very first episode, Cooper learned that her big brother had been killed in the Vietnam War.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 26 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brother
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The goal is to understand the seduction of fascism, why so many people fell for Mussolini’s message then, and why so many are falling for a similar message today.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2024
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In character dialogue, Wolfenstein like Bronowski, links certainty with fascism.G Kirilloff, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.Letters to the Editor, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2020
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Under the unconditional patronage of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov rules his republic as a totalitarian, and has done so since taking power in May 2004, after his father, then President Akhmad Kadyrov, was assassinated.Layla Taimienova, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2017
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The United States withdrew its forces from Europe while demanding debt payments from allies, who passed the costs on to Germany, worsening its financial turmoil and hastening its slide into Nazism.Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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The murder of six million Jews—and the question of whether the British authorities could have done more to save them—complicates an otherwise ennobling story of the country’s heroic stand against Nazism, its finest hour.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
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Annotated Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language declared Americans free from the tyranny of British institutions and their vocabularies.JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
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Transferring that depth to television, particularly to predominantly Black characters in a Caribbean country, especially one as fabled as Jamaica, to confront the tyranny of homophobia while also sustaining a conversation with the U.K. about its tainted legacy of colonialism, is bold and visionary.Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
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A number of sports potentates will be making the Idaho scene, at a moment when tens of billions of dollars are changing hands in pursuit of ever-valuable rights.Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 10 July 2024
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By cracking the whip on local potentates, the party bolsters its already substantial public support and reinforces the power of central institutions.Dali Yang, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
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His first movie in six years, Orphan follows a boy who discovers a dark secret about his origins in the ruins of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against the communist dictatorship.Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2025
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After all, the Carnation Revolution which overthrew four decades of Salazar’s right-wing dictatorship had happened only six years prior.Ana Leorne, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
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Further, America’s adversaries—China, Russia, Iran and North Korea—are collaborating more closely than ever in an axis of autocrats which enable them to combine strengths in their collective goal of weakening the United States.Michael Brown, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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But its core themes—the corrupting allure of control, the dangers of putting the future in the hands of greedy autocrats—align closely with those of the original Dune novels.Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
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The country has become a magnet for warlords, arms dealers, human traffickers, poachers, drug syndicates and generals wanted by international courts.Natasha Frost, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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My wife, who is not an international money launderer or mercenary warlord, was turned down for a savings account with a UK bank last year because her driving license had expired.David G.W. Birch, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Big Brother.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brother. Accessed 16 Jan. 2025.
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