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Recent Examples of feminist
Beauvoir’s letters show a softer, surprisingly endearing side of the pioneering feminist, and Acocella mines them for the delightful and the dirty.
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Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
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
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
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Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feminist
Noun
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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
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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
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Linda’s an idealist and Norma’s a realist.—
Trey Williams,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Dec. 2025
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At least there were idealists who dreamed such fancies, and their dreams were the pretext for creating this nation.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
23 Nov. 2025
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“Feminist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feminist. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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