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as in communist
an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state a novel about an aging comrade's eventual disenchantment with communism and its excesses

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Recent Examples of comrade There were a lot of people, maybe more than five hundred, activists and relatives and friends and comrades. Mariana Enriquez october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025 Minnesota Wild players, who parked in the players’ garage just off the road temporarily dubbed W 97th Street, are delighted to see their comrade for effectively the next nine years. Michael Russo, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025 Edwards and the surviving agents who were part of Haverford’s team spread out to Istanbul, Tehran, and Virginia to avenge their fallen comrades. Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025 Those children who pick up Howard’s radio signal, Sensei’s skateboarding comrades, and Willa all get to make that choice. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for comrade
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Noun
  • One of two vice-chairmen of the commission, the general is the third-most powerful commander of the People’s Liberation Army and has been considered a close associate of President Xi Jinping, the army’s commander-in-chief.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Mann said Heat 2 would not deal with the events of 1995 in the original movie but would start rather one day after, with only Hanna’s associate Chris Shiherlis, played by Val Kilmer still alive.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The following morning, Speak discovered his friend after arriving at his house to pick him up, the intention being to take him to Manchester Airport for a flight to Dubai.
    Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • For the first time on the show, the friends and family members selected by each celebrity contestant for their dedications will join them on the ballroom floor.
    Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Between 1950 and 1954, Senator Joseph McCarthy's lists of communists were actually just targets.
    Alexis Coe, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Continue reading … ALARM BELLS – Top insurance company's deep ties to communist China exposed in blistering ad.
    , FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In a time where women are adopting AI tools at a 25% lower rate than men, Pinterest’s Chief People Officer Doniel Sutton advises her female colleagues to lean in.
    Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In a 2021 update that incorporated additional factors into the simulations, DeConto and colleagues revised that estimate sharply downward, projecting less than 40 centimeters of sea-level rise by the century’s end under high-emission scenarios.
    Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Misconstrued by many as something akin to an extended Henny Youngman routine, Portnoy’s Complaint more closely resembled, according to Albert Goldman, the comedic world of adolescent Roth and his buddies, with its audacity, ferocity, originality, and sheer fecundity.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Once buddies, Robert and Alfred are now rivals.
    Kirk Honeycutt, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The socialist also took the time to address Trump directly and attack Cuomo and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams in the process.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The economy, juiced by billions of dollars in funding from Brussels, was growing fast after recovering from the 2008 global financial crisis, which had damaged the political fortunes of Hungary’s socialists, in power when the crisis hit.
    New York Times, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To the surprise of her robbery accomplices, who are still behind bars, she gets released.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Police also intercepted the Lexus shortly after and allegedly found 21-year-old Kitione Mahe — who had previously been wanted by police — in the front passenger’s seat, along with an unnamed accomplice and the 59-year-old man.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ohtani also had the motivation of matching his fellow Dodgers starters, who have been phenomenal on the mound ever since the playoff race got serious.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Center for Renewing America fellows had written two more chapters in the report.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Comrade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comrade. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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