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personality cult

British  

noun

  1. deliberately cultivated adulation of a person, esp a political leader

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But unlike his peers, Kim Il Sung had built a personality cult robust enough to be passed down to successive generations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

For his critics, it was a personality cult overseeing a Hunger Games-style selection policy.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

Their valuations are reasonable, with the exception of Tesla, which is no longer a stock but a personality cult or a lottery ticket trading at probably six times an aggressive sum-of-the-parts analysis.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

It is difficult to imagine most of them as objects of a personality cult.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025

Chervenkov, in the post-Stalin period, was openly charged with supporting the personality cult policies of Stalin.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Violeta D. Baluyut

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