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There’s a local doctor, Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), who has slipped into alcoholic despair since his wife left him, and Lee Ross (Andrew Scott), a best-selling author and self-professed recovering liberal, whose rightward drift has led him to write an unreadable book about Wicks’s life.
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025
Just as important, his hostility to a two-state solution is overwhelmingly supported by an Israeli public that has shifted decisively rightward in recent decades.
—Andrew P. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2025
The effects were perhaps best seen in New Jersey, a state with a Hispanic population of nearly 22%, when counties with large Latino populations moved to the left following a rightward shift in 2024.
—Halle Troadec, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2025
That has included the hiring of an ombudsman from a rightward think tank.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2025
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025
Just as important, his hostility to a two-state solution is overwhelmingly supported by an Israeli public that has shifted decisively rightward in recent decades.
—Andrew P. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2025
The effects were perhaps best seen in New Jersey, a state with a Hispanic population of nearly 22%, when counties with large Latino populations moved to the left following a rightward shift in 2024.
—Halle Troadec, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2025
That has included the hiring of an ombudsman from a rightward think tank.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2025
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“Rightward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rightward. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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rightward
adjective or adverb
right·ward
ˈrīt-wərd 
: toward, at, or to the right
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