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
  • Yet in California, even though progressives dominate local and state government, the equity argument has long been inexplicably ignored.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2025
  • Other progressives politicians should copy the spirit of that and reimagine a winning coalition in their city, state or district.
    Lincoln Mitchell, The Conversation, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • To make selling conversations more effective, channel professionals must make time to strengthen relationships, not just as salespeople, but as trusted collaborators in driving shared success.
    Susana Cabrera, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • Judith eventually became her husband's partner, creative collaborator and president of their production company.
    CBS News, CBS News, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Eric Coomer, who was the security and product strategy director at the voting equipment company, sued the MyPillow founder and conspiracy theorist for calling him a traitor and accusing him of stealing the 2020 election.
    Jade Walker, CNN Money, 17 June 2025
  • The faithfuls must determine who the traitors are and banish them from the game in order to win the grand prize.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Ohtani threw 28 pitches — 16 for strikes — in the first inning as the sellout crowd of 53,207 hung on every one.
    Beth Harris, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
  • New York had a 15-minute ceremony before the game where the players received their championship rings and the banner was raised to the rafters of Barclays Center to the delight of the sellout crowd of 17,344.
    Jeff Smith, Hartford Courant, 17 May 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
  • Some have likened Barrett to the late Justice David Souter, who was appointed by Republican President George H.W. Bush and later branded a turncoat.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 25 June 2025
  • In the pantheon of Bond villains, turncoats from MI6 have often served as some of the best baddies.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025

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“Accommodationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accommodationist. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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