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feminist

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Recent Examples of feminist An active feminist, Cardinale was a UNESCO goodwill ambassador for the Defense of Women’s Rights from 2000, while in 2011, she was named by The Los Angeles Times Magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful women in the history of cinema. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025 The novel offers a re-evaluation of her legacy, both as a writer, a resistance figure, and as a feminist. Christine Estima september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025 Omisade Burney-Scott is a seventh-generation Black Southern feminist, storyteller and reproductive justice advocate on a mission to redefine menopause—and make room for the most marginalized in the now-booming menopause space. Carmen Rios, Flow Space, 5 Sep. 2025 Bingham is remembered as an author, playwright, feminist and philanthropist. Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for feminist
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Noun
  • Combining the optimism of Don Quixote and Candide became the guide for my main character—an absolutely surreal, absurd optimist, who believes that even things way out of his league are possible for him.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Just last week, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna had positioned himself as a rare optimist amid widespread job cuts, pledging that his company would increase hiring among recent college graduates.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Some idealists set out to build a new community from scratch.
    Big Think, Big Think, 6 Nov. 2025
  • And the call isn’t just coming from idealists this time – the prestigious science journal Nature is also now arguing for a global rail revival – not as a nostalgic nod to the past, but as a pragmatic cornerstone of climate strategy.
    Chelsea Haney October 25, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Feminist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feminist. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.

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