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
  • Jones said both Wei and his mother were anti-communist and held no allegiance to China.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • 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.
    Ana Goñi-Lessan, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026
  • DeSantis has pushed for several anti-communist initiatives in his tenure as governor.
    Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 21 Apr. 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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