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autocratically

American  
[aw-tuh-krat-ik-lee] / ˌɔ təˈkræt ɪk li /

adverb

  1. in a way that is autocratic.


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With no end in sight, Nicholas II was forced to concede that he would no longer rule autocratically, and that a national legislature would meet to create a new voice in the government.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

The report accused him and his handpicked successor, Patrick McQuaid of Ireland, of fostering a doping culture, running the organization autocratically and secretively, violating the organization’s own guidelines and engaging in highly questionable ethics.

From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2017

Before the revolution, Iran was ruled autocratically by Shah Reza Pahlavi.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2015

To be sure, the Brotherhood acted autocratically while in power.

From Newsweek ● Aug. 19, 2013

There, too, the native groups, descended from Mississippian societies, were far more hierarchical and autocratically ruled than the Algonkian- and Iroquoian-speaking groups in the Northeast.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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