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Recent Examples of broad-minded Liberal means generous, broad-minded, tolerant, worldly, seeking acculturation and education, and using government to aid collective human flourishing. Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025 Plus, a lot of social policies that many Californians consider beneficent and broad-minded that, to put it mildly, others around the country consider much less so. Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2025 Instead of articulating a compelling vision that could spark a broad-minded counterpunch to narrow-minded populism, Newsom has taken an oddly defeatist course in his first podcasts. Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025 Jewish groups that are more broad-minded and sensible reacted with concern over the fate of the hostages and revulsion at the entire idea. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2025 The poet Robert Frost once said that a liberal is someone too broad-minded to take his own side in a fight. Rich Lowry, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025 Zweig is characteristically perceptive on the subject: Obviously, a week after Hitler had come to power the idea of monstrous events such as the burning and public execration of books, to become fact a few months later, was still beyond the comprehension of broad-minded people. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024 Intelligent, beautiful, 18 to 25, broad-minded, sensitive, affectionate. Adrienne Raphel, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for broad-minded
Adjective
  • The area is a vast, rural, mountainous tract of forests with a political ethos that resembles Texas more than Los Angeles, San Francisco, the state capital of Sacramento, and other liberal Democratic environs.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The comments section of the New York Times, once the natural home of blithe, unexamined liberal Zionism, now abounds with people calling for a total suspension of military aid and diplomatic cover.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The layout also includes a separate bedroom and bathroom, while the open living room has room for a sofa, TV stand, bookcase, and more.
    Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The 35-year-old Bohannon hopes to draw in audiences and artists who, like himself, may not come from a reggae background but are open to exploring new musical styles.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Today’s progressive lenses offer a workaround.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Radcliffe is Newland Archer, a handsome, progressive, and intelligent society gentleman who craves a deeper and more passionate connection to the world and someone in it.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Was Kansas City just as receptive?
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Vidovic related the RedHawks have been receptive to Hannah, and Dowling enthusiastically confirmed that statement.
    Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The planes are modern, with the average aircraft being less than seven years old.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In the modern game, from Tests to T20s and The Hundred, each side will now tend to include more than one gun fielder.
    James Wallace, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Listening to Susan Stamberg reminded us that often the best questions are short, simple, and open-minded.
    Scott Simon, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Rintaro, a quiet and intimidating baker, and Kaoruko, an open-minded girl with a kind heart.
    EW.com, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Hiring him would be the most conventional aspect of a very unconventional media strategy.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With an unconventional research approach, a new screenwriter and an unestablished director, so much of the film was a leap of faith.
    Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • As in the crowded Arsenale itself, anything more radical to be found in the pavilion is buried under dioramas and walls of texts.
    Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
  • To be clear, this isn’t a radical new idea.
    Wendy Barnes, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Broad-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broad-minded. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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