Example Sentences

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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

In the Warriors, Lacob saw a start-up disguised as an underperforming business, a sports franchise that had been run autocratically — and therefore ineptly — as the industry evolved around it.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2016

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