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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.
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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
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
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Politics & Policy Governor Moneybags Sets His Sights on the Oval Office Jim Geraghty JB Pritzker is progressives’ walking ATM.—
Daniel Foster,
National Review,
15 May 2025
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According to polls, Mamdani’s also the most popular progressive in the race, consistently ranking as the runner-up to Andrew Cuomo, the favorite to replace Mayor Adams, who dropped out of the Democratic primary last month amid fallout from his federal indictment.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2025
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Where our maps show the absence of cicadas, that means that one of us or a collaborator visited that location under appropriate conditions and verified that no cicadas were present.—
Chris Simon,
The Conversation,
22 May 2025
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Miller, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and photographer Inge Morath, and wife of Scorsese collaborator Daniel Day-Lewis, has gained exclusive, unrestricted access to Scorsese’s private archives.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
21 May 2025
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Stephen Fry, Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed and singer Paloma Faith are just three of the 19 celebs entering the castle to sniff out the traitors from the faithfuls in the first celebrity season of the smash hit on the BBC.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
13 May 2025
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The former sees the latter as a pro-European traitor and а success symbol born of the imperial decline that Soviet-era bureaucrats have yet to accept.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
12 May 2025
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The sellout crowd kept the energy going all night, even when the game was slipping away for the Valkyries.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
19 May 2025
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The Chicago Sky forward had just been on the other end of a flagrant foul committed by Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, and the sellout crowd filled with Fever fans let Reese have it.—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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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
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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
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The other senators are immediately abuzz, and Mothma has to be smuggled out of the spherical senate chamber to avoid abduction by a turncoat.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
21 May 2025
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Its players are turncoats whose legacies are forever stained.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Accommodationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accommodationist. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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