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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To get a sentence like that in a communist, radically left-wing city of liberal lunatics is truly amazing.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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The president has spent a decade calling his rivals communists and traitors, among other hyperbolic insults.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Patterson, born in New York City, was the daughter of a Black poet father and a German Jewish artist mother whose brother, a socialist in the French Resistance, had fought and then fled the Nazis.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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Until mid-April, Bass’s chief rival was presumed to be Nithya Raman, a city-council member who chairs the city’s Housing and Homelessness Committee and who identifies as a democratic socialist.—
Meghan Daum,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
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“Commie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commie. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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