accommodationist

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Recent Examples of accommodationist Bob Michel, the longtime accommodationist who treated Democratic House majorities as an unalterable fact of life, faded away, and the pugilistic Newt Gingrich ascended. Ed Burmila, The New Republic, 15 June 2022 Many African American activists had broken with King, advocating Black Power rather than racial reconciliation, abandoning nonviolence, and denouncing King as an accommodationist. Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019 Ava DuVernay is Hollywood’s current reigning accommodationist. Armond White, National Review, 10 July 2019 To Douthat Francis is an accommodationist, and decline has reached the apex of the church. Paul Elie, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accommodationist
Noun
  • Between February and June, Mamdani rallied momentum and broke through the noise with his innovative ideas, further benefiting from a grassroots effort by the left to shaft Cuomo from every progressive's ranked-choice primary ballot.
    Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive, was among the first to give Mamdani her backing before the Democratic primary in June, and has been one of his strongest advocates.
    Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Upon his release, Max B was greeted by family and friends in a joyful moment captured and shared on Instagram by his longtime friend and collaborator French Montana.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The film was the visionary feature debut of Jang Joon-hwan, a university classmate and close early collaborator of Bong Joon Ho.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • When an anarchist frames one of them for treason, another is determined to track down a traitor.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The competition show takes place in Scotland and has cast members divided into two groups, traitors and faithfuls, and the faithfuls try to vote off the traitors to win a cash prize.
    Jenni Fink, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The women’s game was not a sellout, though there was a spirited crowd that included scores of athletes for various teams on campus.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • What Happens Next The release of the 2025 Advent calendar is expected to generate high levels of demand, as indicated by the rapid sellout of last year’s release.
    Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.
    Marc Caputo, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
Noun
  • In his first interview since the tragic events in May, Cacique, a Spanish nickname given to a local boss, said the turncoats hoped to receive a reward for the capture of Robert Colina, whose alias was Pantera, Spanish for panther.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • President Abraham Lincoln called on state militias at the outset of the Civil War to help in fighting Confederate turncoats to the South.
    Alana Wise, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Accommodationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accommodationist. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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