conventionalist

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Noun
  • Leo, by contrast, has been making efforts to engage with conservative and traditionalist Catholics for much of his first year as Pope.
    Paul Elie, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • What Musgraves is doing here is not like the bro-country guys who ease off trap drums to appease country traditionalists.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • The setting may be out of time, but speaks to the present, as the villagers’ conservatism manifests as rejection, suspicion and persecution — treating outsiders or non-conformists as an invading pathogen.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The solace and the pathos in Updike’s and Rosenberg’s work come from realizing that in many cases, conformists can’t win either.
    Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Last year, the Auschwitz Memorial Museum — after hearing from numerous followers about such posts — published a warning about AI Holocaust posts.
    Toby Axelrod, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2026
  • The 21,000-square-foot home sits on the land where actress Sharon Tate, who was eight-and-a-half months pregnant, was killed in August 1969 by followers of cult leader Charles Manson.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
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“Conventionalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conventionalist. Accessed 15 May. 2026.

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