oligarchies
- plural of oligarchy.
Example Sentences
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Global supply chains were supposed to lower costs, boost profits and enable democratic values to seep into the terrain of oligarchies, dictatorships and autocracies.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
Autocracies, unlike oligarchies, make for engaging political theater.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2021
To the present day at least 10 of the 15 former Soviet republics can be accurately described as oligarchies.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 30, 2019
Dictatorships are sometimes identified as either autocracies or oligarchies.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft.
From "1984" by George Orwell
