plural libs
2
informal
a
: a politically liberal person : liberal entry 2 sense c
The reason Obama keeps tilting left is that so many independents have dumped him and he has almost no chance of getting them back. So energizing libs for a massive turnout is his next-best hope.—
Michael Goodwin
Michael Goodwin
b
Lib plural Libs
: a member or supporter of a Liberal political party : liberal entry 2 sense b
Like their Labor counterparts, many young Libs found willing political patronage and slipped seamlessly onto the payrolls of MPs and some eventually entered Parliament themselves, to play politics on a bigger field.—George Morgan
George Morgan1
liberal
2
librarian, library
Examples of lib in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebVulture, 27 Jan. 2023
By patient accumulation of anecdote and detail, Rustad evolves Shetler’s story into something much more human, and humanly tragic, into a layered inquisition and a reportorial force that pushes Shetler beyond his white-lib entitlement into a technicolor mystery.
—New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022
At the height of the ’70s women’s lib movement, Hawn endured an awkward encounter with a female reporter for one of the major women’s magazines.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
The Washington Post spoke to the four speakers who dropped Swift’s lyrics to see who had help crafting their shout-outs and who was a big enough fan to ad-lib the references on their own.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
From there, Rogen appeared to ad-lib even further before shifting back to the business of handing out awards.
—William Earl, Variety, 15 Jan. 2023
The file /data/lib/libips.so was also present but had a file size of zero.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2023
Clark shies away from making any showy marks with her rhetoric, which hews toward a mad lib of inoffensive political platitudes.
—Kara Voght, The New Republic, 2 Jan. 2023
In the hands of a lesser storyteller, we would be encouraged to instantly dislike Birdie for her selfishness and repeated political incorrectness, and Duke for his lib-owning shock jock persona.
—Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 28 Dec. 2022
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Noun
For the ’70s, there was a women’s-lib movement and women were starting to come out of their shell a bit.
—Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
By patient accumulation of anecdote and detail, Rustad evolves Shetler’s story into something much more human, and humanly tragic, into a layered inquisition and a reportorial force that pushes Shetler beyond his white-lib entitlement into a technicolor mystery.
—New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022
At the height of the ’70s women’s lib movement, Hawn endured an awkward encounter with a female reporter for one of the major women’s magazines.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
The Washington Post spoke to the four speakers who dropped Swift’s lyrics to see who had help crafting their shout-outs and who was a big enough fan to ad-lib the references on their own.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
From there, Rogen appeared to ad-lib even further before shifting back to the business of handing out awards.
—William Earl, Variety, 15 Jan. 2023
The file /data/lib/libips.so was also present but had a file size of zero.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2023
Clark shies away from making any showy marks with her rhetoric, which hews toward a mad lib of inoffensive political platitudes.
—Kara Voght, The New Republic, 2 Jan. 2023
In the hands of a lesser storyteller, we would be encouraged to instantly dislike Birdie for her selfishness and repeated political incorrectness, and Duke for his lib-owning shock jock persona.
—Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 28 Dec. 2022
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