autocratically
Americanadverb
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
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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