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
Noun
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Born in 1969, Satrapi spent her childhood in Tehran in a communist-leaning household.—
Hugo Lhomedet,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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In the years following, Beijing funded or armed fellow communists in Vietnam, North Korea, Burma, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia, causing panic in Washington and other Western capitals as the ideological struggles of the Cold War rippled across Asia.—
Dhruv Tikekar,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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One only has to think about the British fight against Nazism to be reminded that it was made of imperialists, constitutionalists, stick-in-the-mud aristocrats, and the socialists who first helped put Winston Churchill into power and then five years later helped push him out again.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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Raman, by comparison, is a progressive democratic socialist.—
Noah Goldberg,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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“Commie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commie. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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