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
  • And yet, for all the buoyancy onstage, Sultana’s party was already riven with deep divisions and suffering from self-defeating impulses familiar to observers of the American progressive left.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Kamala Harris' book proves what progressives have known.
    Chris Brennan, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For almost a decade, McAnally has served as Hayes’ mentor, collaborator and producer, and the fledgling comedian couldn’t help but be delighted by the full-circle moment.
    Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Cabana designs an in-house collection of tableware and home accessories, and is also a serial collaborator.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The high-concept social experiment show, in which a group of strangers work together to uncover the traitors, sorry, werewolves, amongst them, was a breakout hit on Canal+ in France and has already been adapted for ARD’s online service in Germany.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
  • If Brian doesn't answer, he will be labeled a traitor.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bryant went 22-for-45 from the field before a sellout crowd of 19,561 that included boxer George Foreman.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Boise State had its 11th straight sellout Saturday night — a crowd of nearly 33,000 at Albertsons Stadium — but about half of the Bronco Nation that head coach Spencer Danielson likes to brag about didn’t come back after halftime.
    Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 12 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • The turncoats are John Hannah, Biggie Munn, Bo Schembechler and Burt Smith.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 9 July 2025

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“Accommodationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accommodationist. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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