as in socialist
an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
communists were plotting an overthrow of the government
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Recent Examples of communist
My parents and sisters immigrated from Poland in the 1980s, leaving behind a country ruled by communists for a new life just outside of Chicago, Illinois.
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Rich Tabaka, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Madigan touched on Kazan's House Un-American Activities Committee testimony in 1952 amid the blacklisting of Hollywood figures suspected of being communists during the Red Scare.
—EW.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Kamala lost for reasons, in my view, that were absolutely unrelated to being called a communist, which nobody believed in the first place.
—Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
What’s surprising is the utter disregard — willfully or naively — for blatant flaws in the communist worldview, where Big Government controls our destiny at the expense of a free market that made New York prosperous and appealing to college graduates in the first place.
—Luka Ladan, New York Daily News, 5 July 2025
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Rich Tabaka, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Madigan touched on Kazan's House Un-American Activities Committee testimony in 1952 amid the blacklisting of Hollywood figures suspected of being communists during the Red Scare.
—EW.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Kamala lost for reasons, in my view, that were absolutely unrelated to being called a communist, which nobody believed in the first place.
—Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
What’s surprising is the utter disregard — willfully or naively — for blatant flaws in the communist worldview, where Big Government controls our destiny at the expense of a free market that made New York prosperous and appealing to college graduates in the first place.
—Luka Ladan, New York Daily News, 5 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for communist
socialist
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Mamdani, a democratic socialist and the Democratic nominee for mayor, leads in polls 60 days before the November general election.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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Remember this yet again next time conservatives marinating in their victimhood claim Hollywood is full of socialists.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Communist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/communist. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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