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Recent Examples of demagogic
Dave acts onstage, in service of artistic truth; Giles, on the stage of public life, peddles demagogic fictions.
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Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
When triggered, it short circuits the candidate’s strategic thinking and elicits demagogic and dehumanizing arguments.
—Karrin Vasby Anderson, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2024
The feature-film debut of the Wachowski siblings, Bound proves that gender manipulation is an old demagogic strategy.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2024
These were the kind of comments that Republicans of the past might have seen at Democratic conventions and viewed as demagogic.
—Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
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Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
When triggered, it short circuits the candidate’s strategic thinking and elicits demagogic and dehumanizing arguments.
—Karrin Vasby Anderson, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2024
The feature-film debut of the Wachowski siblings, Bound proves that gender manipulation is an old demagogic strategy.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2024
These were the kind of comments that Republicans of the past might have seen at Democratic conventions and viewed as demagogic.
—Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demagogic
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Among those set free with Trump's acts of clemency were Enrique Tarrio, leader of the far-right Proud Boys, who received the longest sentence of 22 years for seditious conspiracy.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
29 June 2025
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Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of all of them on his first day back in the White House, releasing from prison people convicted of seditious conspiracy and violent assaults on police.—
Alanna Durkin Richer,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
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And yes, much of it involves harrowing drives on treacherous mountain roads, only a few of which — disappointingly, considering the title — are icy.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
26 June 2025
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But only three of those runs were earned, and three of the hits were pop flies missed due to treacherous winds at Wrigley.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
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Michael Fassbender plays a British intelligence officer tasked with finding who leaked a top-secret software program and betrayed their country, and the list of five potentially traitorous suspects includes his own high-profile wife (Cate Blanchett).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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Smith made out their former collaborators to be ungrateful and traitorous, and the kids weren't given the space to question her command.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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The perpetrators who drove the chaos at the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building have been duly tried and convicted for their terrible and treasonous acts.—
Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2025
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By 1917 in Russia, housewives were marching in city streets to protest a lack of food, peasants were seizing land, and many Russians saw the czarist government as irrelevant, even treasonous.—
Margaret MacMillan,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Demagogic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demagogic. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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