How to Use anti-communist in a Sentence

anti-communist

adjective
  • Rubio may have achieved a long-standing anti-Communist goal.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Pinochet admired his anti-communist stance, and was skeptical about the extent of Nazi crimes.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The proceeds from the arms sales were then used to fund right-wing, anti-communist rebels, known as the Contras, in Nicaragua.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Her father stayed behind to fight with the anti-communist rebel Contras in the country’s civil war.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026
  • Jones said both Wei and his mother were anti-communist and held no allegiance to China.
    — Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The president is trying to whip the nation into an anti-communist frenzy.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • The proceeds were then used to supply munitions to anti-Communist forces in Nicaragua.
    — John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Yes, the anti-communist proceedings and the way that her fellow scientists were caught up in these proceedings based on rumors and hearsay and things like that.
    — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2023
  • North was part of the twin schemes to sell weapons to Iran and then use proceeds to fund anti-communist rebels, known as the Contras, in Nicaragua.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And yet even as an ardent anti-communist, Rand saw free trade as an antidote to the threat of Communist China.
    — Ben Bayer, Oc Register, 19 May 2025
  • In the 1950s, a wave of anti-communist fear swept through American culture — and the media was not immune.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
  • That move smacked of communism to the Truman administration during the anti-communist fervor of the time.
    — USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Fonda noted that her career began in the late 1950s, amid anti-communist hysteria.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Some, such as Henry Luce, the publisher of Time and Life, became ardent anti-communists.
    — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Mad launched in 1952 at the height of anti-communist fervor and Jaffee arrived as a contributor three years later.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Welch was not a rabid anti-communist, just a realist who wanted to protect Fisher by ensuring this past association would not be used against him.
    — Kristen Monroe, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The surveillance state that has destroyed privacy and the Fourth Amendment right to be let alone was fueled by Buckley’s fevered anti-communist zeal.
    — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2025
  • His role in arranging the secret sale of weapons to Iran and the diversion of the proceeds to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua put him in the spotlight.
    — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • In certain ways, the campaign served as the mirror image of anti-communist and jingoistic propaganda in the United States at the time.
    — Wendy Z. Goldman, The Conversation, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The broadcaster sought to foment anti-communist dissent in Eastern Europe and Russia.
    — Minho Kim, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • DeSantis has pushed for several anti-communist initiatives in his tenure as governor.
    — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • To many Americans, early Fascism sounded less like a foreign menace than like a familiar form of anti-Communist politics.
    — Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
  • When political darkness descended and Sudjojono vanished during the anti-communist purge, Rose faced a world where voices like hers were forced into silence.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Just as hardline anti-communist hardliner Richard Nixon could go to China, Republicans can meddle with markets.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
  • Nolan throws a lot into his IMAX-sized biography, from courtroom dramas to anti-communist fervor to academic in-fighting.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2023
  • Nationalists criticized any possible hint of anti-communist leanings at the school, such as not prominently displaying the Vietnamese flag at commencement.
    — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
  • While many see the HUAC hearings as a travesty, others defend the House committee and the anti-communist fervor that inspired it.
    — Kathy M. Newman, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
  • At the time, Orbán was a liberal anti-communist who had famously demanded the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Orbán began his political career as an energetic anti-Communist.
    — Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Pinochet, a virulent anti-communist and Germanophile, was anointed as head of a four-man Military Junta, and later President of Chile.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025

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