How to Use oligarchy in a Sentence

oligarchy

noun
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  • Their nation is an oligarchy.
  • An oligarchy rules their nation.
  • The corporation is ruled by oligarchy.
  • Before the Civil War, the court was a key ally to the slave-holding oligarchy in the South.
    — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • The judges Kennedy has appointed in the South are designed to protect the oligarchy.
    — Fern Marja Eckman, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Want to imagine life if the public-health oligarchy had free rein?
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The wealthy were a corrupt oligarchy that needed to be shattered.
    — Matt Pearce, latimes.com, 14 June 2017
  • But by 2018, even the English were growing uneasy about the oligarchy.
    — Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Unlike the evil oligarchy of ancient Athens, the A.I. oligopoly set out to do good.
    — Wendell Wallach, Fortune, 16 June 2022
  • The most important component of this oligarchy is the Cuban regime.
    — Moisés Naím, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
  • It’s the antithesis of Spotify and the rest of the music business oligarchy.
    — Sadie Dupuis, SPIN, 7 Feb. 2022
  • In others, the New World Order is not about race or religion but oligarchy.
    — Mike Giglio, The New Yorker, 28 July 2021
  • So much for a next generation of players ready to unseat the oligarchy.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 10 July 2019
  • Most countries in the region are no longer controlled by a narrow oligarchy, nor under the yanqui thumb.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • As a result, the U.S. is currently more an oligarchy than a democracy.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022
  • As in Iran, the bite of sanctions has been felt primarily by the poor and unemployed, while the oligarchy has managed to keep itself in furs.
    — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 20 June 2017
  • Hell, the Greeks knew that social inequality was the route through which democracy turns to oligarchy.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 May 2017
  • This post-Soviet oligarchy also occurred in Ukraine, but the war is changing that.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Of course, Maduro; his wife, Cilia Flores; and many of his relatives and associates are part of that oligarchy.
    — Moisés Naím, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
  • The maddening king of fantasy was deposed; the oligarchy of the writers’ room presided.
    — Namwali Serpell, New York Times, 6 June 2019
  • In 2018, Abrams is running against hate, despair and an oligarchy that has turned the White House into a kleptocracy.
    — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 17 Jan. 2018
  • After all the movement, the Warriors and LeBron James no longer lead an attention oligarchy.
    — Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 22 July 2019
  • This is the police force the Southern oligarchy has used and created to protect their interests.
    — Fern Marja Eckman, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2020
  • For example, why is there a technology oligarchy in the US?
    — Steve Andriole, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The Third Reconstruction should aim to end -- once and for all -- the oligarchy of rich Whites by creating an America in which all are equal at the voting booth, the school, the clinic and the workplace.
    — Jeffrey D. Sachs, CNN, 25 May 2021
  • So what does the Constitution have to say about economic oligarchy?
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Is this just the messy forward march of democracy, or evidence of a malign techno-oligarchy?
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
  • This oligarchy, made up of Chavez's political heirs, is the third major component of the real power in Venezuela.
    — Moisés Naím, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
  • On the fringe of the left there are those who want to overthrow the racist, cisgendered, patriarchal neoliberal oligarchy.
    — David Brooks, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The league that Goodell represents is a cesspool for corporate oligarchy and the patriotism of scoundrels.
    — Jack Hamilton, Slate Magazine, 3 Feb. 2017

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