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Recent Examples of Big Brother
Welcome to a Hump Day Nightcaps — the one where Anna Paulina Luna sends Big Brother a NASTY message for a disgusting new law.
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Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
One of Zapata’s closest allies in the house was Josh Martínez, CBS’s Big Brother Season 19 winner, who has been deeply affected by her exit.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026
That same year, Apple produced a now-iconic Super Bowl commercial, introducing the Macintosh computer and depicting the company as a revolutionary disruptor, destroying Big Brother images from the book 1984.
—Corina Vanek, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
He has been actively involved in BBBS for more than 15 years, twice serving as a Big Brother in the program.
—Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Mar. 2026
Other emerging San Francisco bands at that time include Jefferson Airplane (featuring Grace Slick), Big Brother & the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin), Country Joe and the Fish, and a young Mexican-American named Carlos Santana who kicked away his eponymous band just down the road in 1966.
—Mike Hanlon
march 22, New Atlas, 22 Mar. 2026
Think of it as a one-day Big Brother with jokes.
—Claire McNear, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2026
Hale was crowned the champion of Big Brother season 24 in 2022, winning eight out of nine votes from the jury.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Mar. 2026
The claims against him date between 2006 and 2013, when Brand was at the height of his fame working on Big Brother’s Big Mouth, Kings of Comedy and Big Brother’s Celebrity Hijack.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026
Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
One of Zapata’s closest allies in the house was Josh Martínez, CBS’s Big Brother Season 19 winner, who has been deeply affected by her exit.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026
That same year, Apple produced a now-iconic Super Bowl commercial, introducing the Macintosh computer and depicting the company as a revolutionary disruptor, destroying Big Brother images from the book 1984.
—Corina Vanek, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
He has been actively involved in BBBS for more than 15 years, twice serving as a Big Brother in the program.
—Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Mar. 2026
Other emerging San Francisco bands at that time include Jefferson Airplane (featuring Grace Slick), Big Brother & the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin), Country Joe and the Fish, and a young Mexican-American named Carlos Santana who kicked away his eponymous band just down the road in 1966.
—Mike Hanlon
march 22, New Atlas, 22 Mar. 2026
Think of it as a one-day Big Brother with jokes.
—Claire McNear, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2026
Hale was crowned the champion of Big Brother season 24 in 2022, winning eight out of nine votes from the jury.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Mar. 2026
The claims against him date between 2006 and 2013, when Brand was at the height of his fame working on Big Brother’s Big Mouth, Kings of Comedy and Big Brother’s Celebrity Hijack.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brother
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Weaponizing social media and other U.S. businesses to do what the Constitution would not allow government to do is Big Brotherism.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
31 Mar. 2021
Noun
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It was penned to expose the mechanics of corruption at a point in time when Orwell believed the issue of fascism was of the utmost urgency.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
30 Apr. 2026
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Our militaries fought and won in two World Wars for liberty and against fascism.—
Stephen Doughty,
Boston Herald,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But, ten years later, his embrace of near-totalitarian control bears the deep imprint of his most personal beliefs about force, weakness, faith, and order.—
Evan Osnos,
The New Yorker,
23 Oct. 2022
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But that would not address the fundamental goal of the protests: to end the totalitarian stranglehold that has subjected the Cubans to an unbearable serfdom.—
Néstor T. Carbonell,
National Review,
16 July 2021
Noun
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Still, some historians object to reincarnating a place so central to Nazism as a cultural venue for pleasure.—
Shira Li Bartov,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
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Threat of communism, along with awful economic misery, spawned fascism and Nazism, and World War II.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
22 July 2025
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Khomeini was a leader of opposition to the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, an authoritarian who wanted to modernize the country.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
10 Mar. 2026
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Khamenei, 87, who had been in power for more than three decades, was viewed by critics as a repressive authoritarian responsible for the mass murder of thousands of protesters and other human rights abuses.—
Julian Roberts-Grmela,
New York Daily News,
2 Mar. 2026
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So concluded one of the finest chapters in our history, as the United States saved Western Europe from a diabolical tyranny.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
1 May 2026
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In How to Be a Dissident, Beckerman draws on the stories of dissidents from around the globe and across time, to provide models for pushing back against tyranny.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
1 May 2026
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The game is a playground for Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern potentates, and Latin American strongmen—his people.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
7 Apr. 2026
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Biden put this sentiment into action by working with Netanyahu despite serious moral and political failures in Gaza, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on NATO expansion, and with Gulf potentates on the region’s security architecture.—
James Jeffrey,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Nov. 2025
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Anti-dictatorship, but for kids Serkis scrubs the story of its violence, at least in any graphic manner.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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In a nation that has long prided itself on a free and vibrant news media, rights watchdogs and lawmakers from across the political spectrum denounced the move as an attack on the press without precedent since the end of Argentina’s military dictatorship in 1983.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2026
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