as in left
a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom
liberalism had always claimed to stand for the greatest social good
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Recent Examples of liberalism
In my view, democracy is a condition for liberalism.
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Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
For decades, the left has abandoned liberalism, replacing tolerance with viewpoint discrimination.
—Carolyn McKinney, Boston Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
In fact, the choice Koreans faced at the end of 1948, between a one-party communist state and an autocratic liberalism, was between two options that had very little support at the beginning of the occupation.
—Kornel Chang
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Running from the East River to the Hudson and from Union Square to the top of Central Park, the district is a bastion of a kind of Jewish liberalism that is closely linked with New York City Democratic politics.
—New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
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Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
For decades, the left has abandoned liberalism, replacing tolerance with viewpoint discrimination.
—Carolyn McKinney, Boston Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
In fact, the choice Koreans faced at the end of 1948, between a one-party communist state and an autocratic liberalism, was between two options that had very little support at the beginning of the occupation.
—Kornel Chang
september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Running from the East River to the Hudson and from Union Square to the top of Central Park, the district is a bastion of a kind of Jewish liberalism that is closely linked with New York City Democratic politics.
—New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for liberalism
left
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Automation can go in either of these directions; that’s why the task of the left is to create social and cultural conditions in which the benign and constructive aspects of technology and automation are primary.—
Literary Hub,
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10 Nov. 2025
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One seemed to approach him head-on, while the other two hit him from the left and right.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Liberalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liberalism. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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