as in communist
an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
alleged that commies had infiltrated every level of the federal government
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Recent Examples of commie
There is the monolithic enemy — commies from North Vietnam, sneak attackers from Imperial Japan, tech spies from China.
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Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
Name Billy Bragg Best known for Being a bit of a commie.
—Liza Lentini, SPIN, 10 Nov. 2023
Thank you @elonmusk for stopping the commie who suspended me from Twitter a week before the election.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2022
The only thing more shocking is that the Texas Board of Education didn't try to insert a phrase somewhere saying that global warming was a massive hoax, perpetrated by a cabal of commie climate scientists.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2010
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Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
Name Billy Bragg Best known for Being a bit of a commie.
—Liza Lentini, SPIN, 10 Nov. 2023
Thank you @elonmusk for stopping the commie who suspended me from Twitter a week before the election.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2022
The only thing more shocking is that the Texas Board of Education didn't try to insert a phrase somewhere saying that global warming was a massive hoax, perpetrated by a cabal of commie climate scientists.
—Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2010
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commie
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There’s a scene with a military leader telling Murrow’s producer Fred Friendly to back down, and that Murrow was basically a communist.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
2 Oct. 2025
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Antisemites denounced Jews both as capitalists and as communists—two creeds international in scope.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Mamdani, the Democratic socialist, won a surprising victory in the New York mayoral primary earlier this year in part for unconventional ad spots that broke through the clutter.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
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The former vice president also gave a less-than-effusive endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic socialist running to become the next New York City mayor.—
Mabinty Quarshie,
The Washington Examiner,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Commie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commie. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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