commie

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 But after touring the Eastern Bloc, their standing cratered, pilloried on the left for being government pawns, pilloried on the right for being peaceniks playing rock and roll for commies on the government’s dime. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023 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 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 Could all this tough-guy pushback be nothing more than a Vaccine Political Theater performance for a small and perpetually angry slice of Chicagoans who think any Democratic idea must be deemed a commie plot? Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2021 See All Example Sentences for commie
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Noun
  • Fascists, communists, terrorists, and human traffickers all have values, but most of us would not consider their values valuable.
    Andrew Abela, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
  • Buang feared his family would pay a terrible price if captured by the communists.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
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  • That was demonstrated on the night before Newsom’s announcement when Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — two East Coast democratic socialists — attracted nearly 30,000 people at an anti-Trump rally in a Republican congressional district near Sacramento.
    George Skelton, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Many in the audience also came to hear Ocasio-Cortez, 35, a sharp, politically savvy Democratic socialist once at the fringes of the Democratic Party who is now broadening her national appeal.
    Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2025

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“Commie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commie. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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