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as in archconservative

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as in stuffed shirt

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Recent Examples of Bourbon
Noun
Canada is dropping its retaliatory tariffs on a set of American products that includes distilled spirits, according to media reports, marking a positive step forward for Kentucky's marquee bourbon industry, industry leaders said. — Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Aug. 2025 Expect cozy notes of bourbon vanilla, vanilla Madagascar, amyris, and cocoa shell, plus a superfine champagne sparkle that gives skin a radiant gleam. — Annie Blackman, Allure, 15 Aug. 2025
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According to Hannett, the use of bourbon casks doesn’t overpower the complexity that the barley is supposed to bring to the whisky. — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2026 Those early flavors walk right up to the edge of becoming too intense—before traditional bourbon vanilla and caramel sweetness reign things in at the last moment. — David Thomas Tao, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for Bourbon
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bourbon
  1. archconservative
  2. square
  3. traditionalist
  4. Colonel Blimp
  5. neocon
  6. neoconservative
  7. paleoconservative
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  • Those two issues, in particular, women’s empowerment and agrarian reform, went over like a lead balloon with the archconservatives of the country, especially religious.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • Rachmaninoff has gone from being widely viewed as a musical archconservative to a protomodernist.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
Definition of archconservative
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  • The intuitive Moon in your sign centers your 1st House of Identity, forming a square to money-minded Venus in your 10th House of Career and Reputation.
    — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Dishes here are served in a restaurant that spills out onto the central square of the hotel, with a bar counter that dominates the room.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2026
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  • Conservatives in DellaPosta’s study were more likely to endorse spanking kids, for instance, which aligns with conservatism’s more traditionalist worldview.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Like other hard-right populist parties across the globe, Reform’s brand is very much tied up in traditionalist masculinity.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of traditionalist
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  • In Zac’s report, Schoonmaker addressed Powell’s legendary filmmaking partnership with Emeric Pressburger, which spawned films such as The Red Shoes, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and Black Narcissus.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2025
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  • At the same time, the recent, deadly brutality of the agency and its partners has led, according to some polls, to strong support for such a policy; those espousing the slogan have included Bill Kristol, the neocon anti-Trump writer.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • This faith caused the neocons to recoil in from the Obama administration’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
Definition of neocon
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  • Senor and Stephens are neoconservatives who hardly needed to be convinced that the members of progressive movements were not friends of the Jewish people.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Moreover, during the Iraq war, the Jewish community could effectively argue that framing the conflict as a Jewish neocon conspiracy was baseless, even as some neoconservatives influenced policy.
    — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
Definition of neoconservative
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  • In his final act of excommunication, Buckley took a stand against the paleoconservative Pat Buchanan in 1991 for expressing opposition to the Persian Gulf war in terms that were both incendiary and undeniably anti-Semitic.
    — DAMON LINKER, New York Times, 8 May 2017
Definition of paleoconservative

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“Bourbon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Bourbon. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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